Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!nntp.gol.com!203.216.70.8.MISMATCH!not-for-mail From: CL Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: renewing spouse visa...hmmm did I forget anything? Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 16:34:17 +0900 Organization: FusionGOL - Global Online Japan Lines: 42 Sender: crlipton@gol.com Message-ID: References: <1114993059.188576.248040@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <8Dede.119$Ch5.94@news1.dion.ne.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: d6.j3airh1.vectant.ne.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nnrp.gol.com 1115278371 6405 203.140.44.6 (5 May 2005 07:32:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@gol.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 07:32:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0518-3, 04-05-2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:27105 Ryan Ginstrom wrote: > "CL" wrote in message news:d5574t$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