Haluk Skywalker <yokoolebiri@spam.net> wrote:

> " Louise Bremner" <dame_zumari@yahoo.com>, haber iletisinde $(D??(Bunlar$(D??(B
> yazd$(D??(B:1g63153.1rod3ypwqzk0N%dame_zumari@yahoo.com...
> > Haluk Skywalker <yokoolebiri@spam.net> wrote:
> > ...
> > >
> > > Not really. I got two children there and if it was any country else
> > > I'd have permanent residency.
> >
> > Note that you do not want to get the tax authorities pissed off at you.
> > In the worst case, it could become impossible for you to return to Japan
> > at all. (Didn't that happen to one of the Kents?)

> No, I don't want to piss off tax people or immigration people or any other
> competent authority that may be lurking this newsgroup. Actually my
> primary concern was not evading tax at all.

Of course it wasn't. But maybe you need to be a little more careful with
your wording, just in case.

> But I really think that immigration laws (or tax regulations etc) need to
> be reviewed as the world changes. Nowadays living in a country does not
> necessarily mean making an income in that same country.

True, but it's possible you're not the person to insist on such changes.
Just follow the existing rules for now, and get professional tax advice.

> 
> Who are Kents?

There were two gaigin *tarento* a few years ago, both with the given
name "Kent". I don't remember seeing either of them in my random
flicking through the channels, for some time now.

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