On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 23:51:17 +0200, "Haluk Skywalker"
<yokoolebiri@spam.net> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:

>"Michael Cash" <mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp>, haber iletisinde sunlari
>yazdi:qsottv4839uft2rkqs7v1a1po4qf8soa9r@4ax.com...
>> 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 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.
>>
>
>Unlike US, govt. of Turkey does not levy income tax on income its citizens
>made abroad. Thus I wouldn't be evading income tax of Turkey. Because the
>income is originating from Turkey, I wouldn't be evading income tax of Japan
>either.
>
>I don't know about the laws, but good judgement says there is no evasion
>here.

Since when do tax department bureaucrats care more about good judgment
than the law?

As Ryan has pointed out, it doesn't matter how the money is channeled.
If the work is performed in Japan and money is paid for it, then the
income is considered to be earned in Japan and taxable by Japan.
Otherwise, don't you think there would be a huge business in providing
to all Japanese the very sort of international payroll transfer racket
you have thought of? We'd save not only by paying no income tax, but
by perennially being in the lowest bracket for national health
insurance, since each year our previous year's income would be zero.




--

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