Mike Cash
骨も命も皆此の土地に埋めよう
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If you can find any hard evidence that tax and insurance liabilities aren't waived when you leave Japan and your visa expires, and they will/can chase you for the payments if and when you return to Japan on a new visa, then post it.
So I'm supposed to provide you with evidence of the nonexistence of something which supports your assertion rather than you providing evidence of the existence of something which supports your assertion?
The only reasonable explanation I can think of for that is that the payment is cancelled when your visa and residency expires. Another explanation could be that the payment is maintained in the system as required to be paid, but there is no procedure to alert your previous city office that you've returned to Japan, but that seems absurd. Why would they maintain a demand for payment but not have a system that alerted them that you'd returned to Japan?
Why do you think I asked you the specific time period you were talking about? Prior to the introduction of the My Number system Japan's bureaucratic left hand had no way of knowing what its right hand was up to; there was no easy method for cross-checking or sharing information between bureaucracies.