RetireJapan

Thank you for detailed reply, much appreciated. At present we do not have our own place in Japan, so we are initially planning to stay in a service apartment. However, the service apartment we are planning to rent will not allow us to move in until we can show them a negative PCR result. So, I assum...

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My Japanese wife and I (i'm British) are in the midst of securing a CoE application and if all goes well with the Japanese embassy here in Malaysia where we live, we plan to move to Japan in October or November this year. Does anyone have an actual experience of returning to Japan this month into To...

Thanks for your reply Ricardo. My pension is offshore as I am not a UK resident at present, so I will receive it tax free of UK taxes.

Thank you for your reply, you comment about being considered a tax resident from day one is something I did not assume but this is likely as I will be entering Japan on a spouse visa. I will need to adjust my plan to safeguard against this, I doubt I will know how they classify me when I arrive but ...

Are dividend payments and capital gains (from cashed in investments) from the UK treated any differently when taxed in Japan? I believe overseas dividends are taxed in Japan at 20.42%, but I am unsure how capital gains are taxed in Japan? Finally, once I have paid the 20.42% is anything else due, fo...

My retired wife and I are in the process of preparing our move to Japan. In preparation for this I am trying to get my head around the level of taxation and insurance contributions we will need to make. My question which I hope someone can assist is regarding National Health Insurance (Kokumin Kenko...