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What is the best way to obtain a RUT and National ID (Carnet)? My wife and I bought a departamento in Concepcion, but we used the RUT of our son which has since expired. We are finding out we need a RUT to do many things. Thanks for any attention you could give to this matter. We love Chile, especially southern Chile and plan on retiring soon and living in Chile.

First, if you used the RUT of your son, then you do not own the property. You should have that sorted out by lawyer, if you really intended to put the property in your name.

RUT numbers are easy to get. There is a form at any IRS office you need to fill out. Nothing more than a tourist visa will do it. Try an IRS office that does not get a lot of traffic to avoid the line (really the hardest part). They issue it on the spot.

As for Chilean ID, you will need to get in to immigration and residency issues to obtain one of those.

Thanks for the information, very kind of you to provide this forum.

Thanks for the info about the RUT. I was told there was ALOT more to do to get one, like visit the International Police etc.

IRS ... is this the name, the yellow pages does not have a listing.
If it is an abreviation, can you tell me the long form

Would like to get this going as I have found out how important a RUT is here.

To obtain the RUT number is very easy, just 10-15 mins tramitation at least here in Arica, the name of the office is Servicio de Impuestos Internos, and the only things you need is your passport and a chilean adresss where the definitive card will be sent by mail

The address should be in the city where you are requesting it. So, for example if you are requesting a rut in Santiago, you need a local mailing address in Santiago. Your hotel will work.

Thanks for the info guys! The SII office is 2 blocks from my apartment! Going to make life easier!!

Should every 'tourist' staying in Chile for more than a couple of months have a RUT? What are some of the things for which such a tourist would need to have a RUT?
TIA.

No, there is no obligation to obtain the RUT number, It is used only for few contracts like buy of a property or a car, it is not needed for most of the usual tramitation.

What happens with the RUT obtained under a Tourist Visa when one obtains a RUN number?

Or more specifically what happens RUT and RUN wise under:

(1) Temporary Residence or Work Visa

(2) Permanent Residence

What happens if one goes from Temporary Residence back to Tourist and then back again to Temporary Residence? Do you keep the original RUN?

I am not sure if the RUT number remains the same for people coming from other countries.

I only know that they have a diferent (higher) serial number, for chileans It depend on the year of birth (all we 50some are 6xxxxxx-x or 5xxxxxx-x, yougsters has higher, my son´s RUT start with 17th millions). "Personas juridicas" (companies of any kind) have also a higher number (83 millions or such).

So you and your company can have two diferent RUT numbers, I guess that you may keep the same number no matter your resident status, but I am not sure on that

In the 80s the rut numbers for CHileans of ny age were in the 9.6**.***-* and foriegners were given numbers begining in the 14 millions because it was thought that those numbers would not be eclipsed by the CHilean born population...14 mill was a foriegner exclusive number...I have gone in and out of several visas over the years and retain the same number...its just "vigente " or "no-vigente" but its mine no one else can get it...I also have a rol(for business) and a run...the run is now begining in the 48 millions. THe run is a number given to investors that do not have visas but are actualizing capital purchases in CHile. Anyone can geta run at SII...it is also called RUN/temporario-provisorio indefinido. If a person so choses to obtain a visa eventualy then their new rut will take over from the run. THe run will continue but it will be "no-vigente". If you loose your visa and return then the run will become "vigente".

Its a numbers game.

I have no idea what the numbers are at for "carnet national de extranjero" right now so if someone has gotten one in the last ...5 or ten years than share it...

p out

I've a question regarding RUT and property. Some time ago (10 years or so, while I was living in Germany), I bought a small property near Valdivia. It took a really long time to get all the paperwork done (at Bienes Raices), but eventually I started receiving property tax bills (extremely small ones) at my brother-in-law's address. Since then I've since moved to Chile, and now I'm wondering if I've already got a RUT? Where could I get information / who would I ask?

Thanks for any info. Frank

Quite easy, just go https://zeus.sii.cl/cvc/stc/stc.html and enter your RUT nmbr at bottom of page, your tax situation will appear there

Hi TomBrad, thanks for the reply, but it's not what I need. I have a ROL. I'm not sure if this means I also have RUT, so I can't enter it on the page you mentioned. I think the best thing is to go to the SII office in Providencia with all my documentation and see about straightening everything out. May be a few days before I feel I can handle a day of Chilean bureaucracy, however... I did some more searching of the forum Unfortunately the search string "RUT" gets lots and lots of hits, but I think I found something useful...