Hi all,
Posting this as I’m in a bit of a conundrum. I arrived in Japan after the end of tax season last year (e.g. in April). I am on a HSP visa.
I’m now preparing my documents for applying for PR and immigration lawyer requested the following documents:
* Inhabitant tax certificates (Juminzei Kazei Shomeisho and Nozei Shomeisho) （住民税課税証明書 and 住民税納税証明書) for the latest year which is issued by city office in Japan.
**Nozei Shomeisho must show the completion of the payment of inhabitant tax.**
That’s the part I don’t understand. I have not paid any resident tax yet since I was not living in Japan on the first day of last year.
The withholding tax is automatically held from my salary and I have a withholding tax certificate from Freee (which my company uses for tax) that proves it.
However, the resident/inhabitant tax was never paid yet.
Does anyone who applied for PR in year 1 of their residency have any advice to share? My lawyer said we can just apply with an explanation of why the certificate is missing, but that seems very odd to me.
Thank you in advance.
by dmm_ams