Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!news.tutrp.tut.ac.jp!news.cc.tut.ac.jp!nfeed.gw.nagoya-u.ac.jp!news-sv.sinet!kinds.kumamoto-u.ac.jp!oix.u-ryukyu.ac.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: hokousha2001@yahoo.com (Hokousha) Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Japan Tax Question (Credit for Political Contributions) Date: 20 Dec 2003 00:54:51 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 22 Message-ID: <67aee454.0312200054.12dbf158@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 61.115.106.239 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1071910492 494 127.0.0.1 (20 Dec 2003 08:54:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 08:54:52 +0000 (UTC) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:9106 As we approach the end of another year of LDP abusse, I remembered that there's some kind of special deduction you can take for contributions to political parties (last year this was line 25 of form A). The instructions merely reference another zeimusho document (seitou nado kifukin tokubetu koujou wo ukerareukata he), which I don't have, so I thought I would see if anyone here has any experience or knowledge about it. It looks like this is a straight tax credit (rather than a deduction from taxable income), so if, for example, I'm liable for 1,000,000 yen in national tax, then it seems like this credit would essentially allow me to give 1,000,000 to the political party of my choice (i.e. not the LDP) and owe no tax. Does anyone know more about this? I figure there must be a whole stack of special rules and exceptions, and there may not be time to do it this year, but... I kind of like the idea of being able to say where my tax money goes, even if it's only a part of it. Thanks! Tim