"CL" <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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.  Or so my tax accountant has assured me for the past 15 
> years.  Since I have never been re-audited, I tend to believe he is 
> earning his money.  A spouse visa holder only has to pay taxes on income 
> up to the day you leave and you can re-enter on a visitor's visa after 
> 90 days without incurring further taxation liabilities.


Fair enough. I must admit I hadn't looked into it that deeply.


-- 
Dave Fossett
Saitama, Japan