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Buying Silver Coins in Zero VAT EU countries

The comparison table shows prices of Silver from various sources taken on 04 Sep 2012, mostly relating to purchasing silver coins.

I had been investigating going to Estonia or Norway to purchase silver to avail of the zero % VAT on legal tender (note that silver bullion still attracts VAT in Estonia), but the table [...]

Buying Gold and Silver Jewellery in Istanbul Grand Bazaar

Recently, I was in Istanbul ( had never been there but found it a really great place to visit – Byzantium and Constantinople thrown in for free). The Grand Bazaar is a covered market area (proper covered, no flimsy rooves you may see in other places) containing 3-4000 shops. For more than four hundred years [...]

Opening a Swedish Krona Bank account in Sweden

Sweden is another place you can consider opening a non-resident bank account. And it is possible for an Irish resident to do so.

To date I’ve only investigated setting up an account with one Swedish bank – this is SEB (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB) bank, controlled by the Wallenberg family who have been involved in [...]