Tsumitate Wrestler wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 1:05 am
loua_oz wrote: ↑Sun Jan 05, 2025 2:06 pm
After my retirement in Japan, after 21 years, I was presented with a bill of 550,000 Yen for forest and whatever.
I paid it. There are more bills like that to come. City council. Nagoya.
I do not understand this comment.
I've seen this confusion once before.
This is because the wording on the resident tax form, when issued by your local municipality will include a comment about forestry.
In reality it will just have been the usual outstanding juuminzei.
but as "loua_oz" was likely having their juuminzei deducted from salary they won't have seen this before hence the confusion.
Although. A tax for "whatever" would match some of my experiences dealing with local suppliers that include a line items for "whatever" in their quotations.
Back when I was "too young to know better" * I insisted this be removed. It was. With the amount amortized across the other items...
hi loua_oz,
Am I right to assume that's pronounced as it's spelt?
Resident tax is about 10% of income and paid to your local authority either by your employer or by yourself directly.
It's calculated based on the previous calendar year's income so you are always in arrears of sorts.
Jan - Dec earn. Following June you start paying for that.
You employer would split the bill over 12 months.
As you can see, when you retire there will be a tail of taxation of sorts.
Once you've had a full year of no/low income there will be no more resident taxes being incurred.
read up on it here:
https://retirewiki.jp/wiki/Residence_Tax
* I'm now "old enough to know better" as my superior 50% likes to remind me..