I’m doing my own taxes and I’m going through the city to help me fill it out.
They give me the papers and in the end we figure out how much I’m supposed to pay.
Am I able to do this all myself next year? Fill in all the numbers and figure out what I have to pay. They mail me all the papers. And I imagine if I do it myself I just fill it all out at home.
I use the blue sheet since I run an English school.
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Yes. Also online
I been doing mine online since 2015. It’s much easier online. You can use translator and watch youtube videos showing how to do it.
r/JapanFinance check the sticky post, and beware of deadline …
Online with autotranslation is easy the second year, but the first you just go slow
I’ve been doing my own Japanese taxes for the past 20+ years. Never had a problem (except a few years back when they switched to a different form than the one I’d gotten used to). They even used to send me English instructions until 3 or 4 years ago; I don’t know if they stopped producing those, or they just figured that I know what I doing by now and don’t need them anymore.
If you can speak Japanese, MF Cloud has been a great resource for me. As a freelancer, it was what my coworker recommended, and I’ve been using it for four years.
You better hop on it though, because filing late can cause issues in filing for PR status (if you don’t already have it). I have a lot of business expenses and a largish number of clients, and it took me about 6 hours to do my taxes this year…. But I already know how to do it.
The tax office should send you at home a thick envelope with all the basic forms required plus the English and Japanese instructions.
You can find them online too but if you prefer the paper form which acts as a “reminder” (because it arrives at the beginning of February) to file your taxes, you ask your tax office for it.