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Filing Taxes in Japan Is a Breeze. www.nytimes.com

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years ago

In Japan, you get a postcard in early spring from Kokuzeicho (Japan’s I.R.S.) that says how much you earned last year, how much tax you owed and how much was withheld. If you disagree, you go into the tax office to work it out. For nearly everybody, though, the numbers are correct, so you never have to file a return.


0 | #12980 by  Yubi | 8 years ago
If you are a salaryman, your employer and the tax office will have the forms pre-filed, and you can take a few minutes to add tax return details to the form if you have any. The only complaint that I have about this form is that it uses a very small font size. You know when you have to get glasses, just by reading the tax form :-p. If you have multiple sources of income and all of them are large, the job gets a bit more tedious. You have to update the pre-filled forms as the article says. But that's that.
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