Hello! I’ve been reading here and there for the last year or so, but I’m still rather confused.
I’m a seishain at my company and work remotely. They currently handle my taxes, pension, etc. They are fine with me having a second job that does not compete with them.
I am moving to a place with farmland (already handled all that fun approval stuff) and will presumably want to set up a kojin jigyou and do blue form taxes.
I suppose, at this point, I would tell my company that I will be handling my taxes on my own from this point. However, what happens with health insurance and nenkin?
I’m also curious as to what is deductible exactly. A user posted https://github.com/pcboy/the-law/blob/master/Japan/Taxes.md in another thread and it was quite helpful, but this is all rather intimidating.
I do not expect to make a profit in the first year due to (a) never farming at an actual scale (b) starting later in the year than is good (c) general uncertainty and being busy with moving across Japan and trying to get life generally set up.
Extra info: my wife may have some occasional remote work from her old company but this is not guaranteed and we don’t know the amount of work or salary. She will no longer be a seishain at this point. I don’t know exactly what this will look like yet (is this some baito? is she a freenlancer?), but I imagine I will need to do something to get her taken care of as a dependent and/or on my nenkin or something?
Bonus: I’m a US taxpayer, my wife NRA. I do my taxes online with H&R Block and as long as I continue this, I think it will be fine.
Thanks very much for any advice or help! (I realize I will need an accountant at some point sooner rather than later, but I’m just trying to get some baseline understanding here).
Edit: SoR is spouse of Japanese.
by tiredofsametab