On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:09:12 +1000, "thegoons" <thegoons@bigpond.com>
brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

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>"necoandjeff" <spam@schrepfer.com> wrote in message
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>> What sorts of benefits or perks do you suppose there are in Japan?
>Everybody
>> gets a house or something?
>
>Sorry I worded that differently. Is the rate of taxation and similar type
>things the same as if you are Japanese?

For the first year, your employer will most likely hold out tax at the
confiscatory gaigin rate (20%). Mine did. Fortunately, at the end of
the year I had been back in Japan for over a year, so they figured my
tax obligation at the normal rate and I got a humongous refund. Other
guys were getting envelopes containing three or four thousand yen, and
I got 394,000 in mine.

It was a hell of a struggle to make my coworkers understand that my
getting so much refunded was a direct result of having had far far too
much withheld each month. That was strictly a one-time thing, though. 




--

Michael Cash

"I am sorry, Mr. Cash, but we are unable to accept your rap sheet in lieu of
a high school transcript."

                                Dr. Howard Sprague
                                Dean of Admissions
                                Mount Pilot College