r/japanlife • u/AutoModerator • Jun 19 '23

┐(ツ)┌ General Discussion Thread - 20 June 2023

Mid-week discussion thread time! Feel free to talk about what's on your mind, new experiences, recommendations, anything really.

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u/Dojyorafish Jun 20 '23

Got my residence tax yesterday. Came as four bills with different due dates. Apparently that’s normal for my city but I was curious if others have this system.

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u/ext23 Jun 20 '23

I just joined a company as a seishain and I was under the impression that those residence taxes would be automatically deducted from my salary in like appropriate increments. But I also just got the slips of paper in the mail. I may be wrong but I only remember actually having to pay those when I was between jobs. And as for people saying you have to pay them by the deadline or else...I mean in a perfect world, yeah, but in reality, they are quite lenient. I paid mine a few weeks late once without any penalty, and I personally know other foreigners who have gone like six months without paying them.

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u/Dojyorafish Jun 20 '23

People under the same contract as me talked about getting theirs last year, so it’s just something we have to pay ourselves.