I’m applying for PR via a law firm with the 1 year points-based system (110 points). Been in Japan for 5 years.
Long story short, switched jobs late last year and thought my residence tax would be paid by my new company, assumed the payment slips were an error and put them in the ‘to deal with when I have time’ pile. Boy, do I regret that. Now I have on my record that my residence tax was delayed, though I had paid perfectly up until now.
I’ve heard a lot about recent late payment being an automatic ‘no’, but wondering if anyone has heard of people still getting PR despite recent delayed tax payment? I’m talking to the law firm about it, but their answers are quite vague and slow, so wanted to check if anyone has had a similar experience.
Kicking myself for messing up like that, but at the end of the day I was the one who messed up, so if I get rejected based on that I guess it makes sense. Life teaches hard lessons sometimes…
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From what I know, being late on residence tax does hurt pretty badly and unless you can prove some extraneous reasons, you might be better off waiting until you gone at least another year of no late payments before applying.