Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
> "CL" <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:d5574t$t3m$1@nnrp.gol.com...
> 
>>You're right about permanent residence, as far as you take it.  However, 
>>if you have income in countries other than Japan, what things are 
>>"taxable overseas income" and what isn't changes when the visa changes 
>>... as in the host nationals get their hands even deeper into your 
>>pocket than they had it after you'd been here for five years.  And, when 
>>you leave, you still have to pay the locals their "fair share" for a 
>>year afterward (not just the one-year lag time on income tax, but a 
>>year's worth of income earned after you leave) unless you re-enter the 
>>country for any reason during that year, then they re-set the one year 
>>clock again.
> 
> Could point me to the statute that says this?

If I coulda', I woulda'.  An accountant (US + JP CPA) found it for me 
and made a recommendation that I chose to follow.  Whether it is an 
accounting rule, tax law, or immigration law, I don't know for sure.

I know what preconditions I had to meet in order for it to work for me:

-  All of my savings that had been accumulated before I moved here went 
into a personal trust that doesn't begin to pay dividends back until I 
turn sixty when I moved to Japan.  I had to prove to the Japanese tax 
authorities that all of the interest and profit from the investment of 
that trust belongs to the trust and not to me.  I am advised that, if I 
become a permanent resident, Japan does not recognize personal trusts of 
the sort I have and would do a "taxes, penalty, and interest" dance 
which they can't now as it is _assumed_ by my actions that I eventually 
intend to leave.

-  I also had to attest that all of the bills I send out all over the 
world for the work I do while I am a resident of Japan are paid to me in 
Japan -- even when I work overseas and come back.

-  and sign a bunch of other forms I can't recall off the top of my head.

I e-mailed the accountant who recommended this to me to ask what he was 
quoting from ... but it's Golden Week ...

CL