On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:53:15 +0900, "Dave Fossett"
<reply@via.newsgroup> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:

>"Haluk Skywalker" wrote:
>
>> I'm a freelance translator, who resides in Japan but works with
>translation
>> agencies in Turkey only.
>> I have an account in Citibank. My agencies in Turkey deposit my weekly
>> paycheck to my Citibank account and I withdraw the money in Japan.
>Although
>> I pay shit load of banking commission; I don't care. Money's comin', so no
>> problem.
>> So basically, 100% of my income is from Turkey. I am not working in Japan.
>I
>> live there with tourist visa, leave the country every three months and
>come
>> back.
>>
>> Practically I am not in ihou taizai or do I? And the only tax I am subject
>> to is 5% zeikin, right?
>
>I'm not a lawyer either, but it sounds like you would be working on a
>tourist visa, which is not allowed. 

Not only that, he opens himself up for charges of income tax evasion.




--

Michael Cash

"Tom Cruise saves late 19th Century Japan from creepy politicians and creeping
Westernization in "The Last Samurai," another Hollywood epic that shows that 
nobody embodies the nobility of an exotic foreign culture like a visiting white 
guy."

                                John Beifuss