Taxes

Managing taxes has to be the most taxing chore for any working professional.  It demands manual and mental work plus precision to make the figures as coherent as possible to one’s financial records. For foreigners residing in Japan, the difficulty in dealing such laborious, but necessary task is raised up a notch as one has …

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Intended Audience Business owners whose Japanese subsidiary company engages in auxiliary business activities such as sales support and market research in the Japanese market. Background Most foreign-owned Japanese subsidiaries, both KK and GK, are appointed as sales support entities by their overseas parent company.  With this setup, the parent company directly conducts business with Japanese …

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