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AGreed. But what is the solution? An all powerful king? Decisions would be made lightning fast without the bureaucracy...but the danger of having an all powerful leader without checks and balances has been demonstrated many times in history. Has it ever been successful in recorded history?Lately , if they manage to ever agree to pass something , the Prez vetos it. Almost 8 years of petty bickering and the future looks grim for the next election so far.
AGreed. But what is the solution? An all powerful king? Decisions would be made lightning fast without the bureaucracy...but the danger of having an all powerful leader without checks and balances has been demonstrated many times in history. Has it ever been successful in recorded history?
They do and they will come after you. They will even enter your house at 10p.m. and go through all your paperwork if you have been doing something illegal. It happened to my friend and he had to pay 5 million yen.Of course they have a tax agency, it took seconds on Google to find this:
国税庁ホームページ
Mary, I don't understand that last question. You came here with some information about rich Japanese paying taxes, and several posts later you ask whether Japan has an IRS.
what? How the heck did you imagine those rich people paid taxes?
Ishibai,
Why on earth would you warn Mary about tax collectors like that? She hasn't given any indication that she did anything wrong.
An odd response because Mary didn't seem seem to be worried for her own sake. More like doing research out of curiosity.I wasn't warning her. I was warning everyone.
"Get you!?!" I know that is a trolling statement, but I just have to respond for the sake of other readers. Not only does that sound falsely Orwellian, but I've never heard of anything like it in the near 20 years I've been here, neither the "get you after 5 years", or making you want to leave.And rule #2 is pay your taxes if you are there for 5 years or more or they will get you, they will get you so bad you will want to leave.
You said you had a good accountant, so there wouldn't have been the need to confront authorities by yourself. I doubt this story ever happened. Again, it's off-topic from what Mary originally asked anyway.Rule #3 is make sure you pretend not to speak Japanese when the tax people question you, communication will be at a stand still and you won't be backed into a corner. I was lucky as my Japanese was really bad, so I did not even have to pretend haha!
Nobody here cares about your own income, ishibai.
Mike Cash,
You may not believe my salary, I found it was important to announce on one or two occasions,
It isn't a matter of not believing. It is a matter of being tired of the one-note samba. You drag it in by the heels every chance you get. If you were repeatedly announcing 250k/month in yen I would be equally as tired of hearing that.