Taxes in Japan
This past weekend was our self-emposed deadline for filing taxes here in Japan. By law taxes are to be filed by mid-March so our deadline wasn’t at all unreasonable.
So on Sunday we went to the tax office, which was quite the experience. In Japan it is common to go to the local gov’t tax office and have a representative help you fill out your forms for no direct cost (it’s obviously paid by tax money). There were a lot of people there on Sunday, and a lot of assistants willing to help. Almost felt like the wolves had trained the sheep.
In all honesty though, they were quite nice in helping to fill out the forms.
March 1st, 2010 at 5:44 pm
Did you get a refund this time? Was there taxes higher than stateside? Just curious.
March 1st, 2010 at 5:56 pm
no refund here. Japan’s taxes are a little bit higher I do believe, but actually not much (maybe a couple % points). That is considering all the different levels of tax.