So, i understand the working another job alongside jet isnt allowed, but what about passive income jobs? Like logging in somewhere a few times a day and managing stuff. Does this violate that?
Logging in somewhere a few time a day and managing stuff doesn’t sound very passive. Passive income is like renting out a house, or earing interest on investments. Not managing things.
Whatever you do, if the money goes through another country first the chances of being caught are slim.
Yes, it does violate the rule. Just be sure it doesn’t touch your Japanese bank account and you should be fine though. Just remember you’re taking a risk and don’t get cocky about it.
To address the first part of your post, you are in fact allowed side work alongside your regular JET job, based on rules for fiscal year contracted employees and the slight changes in labour laws that affected JETs as of April 2020 (I think, maybe it was 2021).
You still need to ask your BoE for permission, to which they can say no, and you must abide by the total hours weekly which should not exceed an average of 40 hours a week average in any given month. Your JET contract has you working 35 so you can do another 5 hours a week, basically, but you can work more one week than others if it still averages out over the course of the month.
All that being said, the work must fall under your visa restrictions (ALTs are quite a bit more restricted than CIRs). For anyone interested in doing such side work, ask your BoE as your first point of call and go from there.
For my sources on this info, I’m a CIR and PA who has dealt with several ALTs who engaged in seeking permission (successfully) for side work, and I myself have a side job on some weekends that I discussed with both my Japanese PA, JET supervisor, and my own office boss, who clarified all the rules with me.
As for the second part of your post about passive income, you can earn as much as you want if you’re not working for it but you’re only entitled up to 200K JPY a year in tax free “miscellaneous” earnings. Anything beyond that you will have to file a tax adjustment for yourself.
You get paid well enough on JET that you don’t need to be a mentalist and work a second job, no matter how “passive” you try and make it seem.
I asked once, they said NO (I was offered another job after the end of my contract but it was starting earlier than my last day). So if you really want to do something be very careful.
Be very careful about remittance laws and income tax laws. Japan doesn’t play with those. Don’t remit any of the money you make in your home country into Japan because that is a very grey zone legally and getting less grey by the minute.
If you keep that money completely separate then it’s safe enough but I would not tell anyone at your workplace about what you’re doing.
Logging in and managing things sounds active to me. Passive foreign income refers to investments and rental income, for example. This should not be confused with an easy online part-time job.
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Logging in somewhere a few time a day and managing stuff doesn’t sound very passive. Passive income is like renting out a house, or earing interest on investments. Not managing things.
Whatever you do, if the money goes through another country first the chances of being caught are slim.
Yes, it does violate the rule. Just be sure it doesn’t touch your Japanese bank account and you should be fine though. Just remember you’re taking a risk and don’t get cocky about it.
To address the first part of your post, you are in fact allowed side work alongside your regular JET job, based on rules for fiscal year contracted employees and the slight changes in labour laws that affected JETs as of April 2020 (I think, maybe it was 2021).
You still need to ask your BoE for permission, to which they can say no, and you must abide by the total hours weekly which should not exceed an average of 40 hours a week average in any given month. Your JET contract has you working 35 so you can do another 5 hours a week, basically, but you can work more one week than others if it still averages out over the course of the month.
All that being said, the work must fall under your visa restrictions (ALTs are quite a bit more restricted than CIRs). For anyone interested in doing such side work, ask your BoE as your first point of call and go from there.
For my sources on this info, I’m a CIR and PA who has dealt with several ALTs who engaged in seeking permission (successfully) for side work, and I myself have a side job on some weekends that I discussed with both my Japanese PA, JET supervisor, and my own office boss, who clarified all the rules with me.
As for the second part of your post about passive income, you can earn as much as you want if you’re not working for it but you’re only entitled up to 200K JPY a year in tax free “miscellaneous” earnings. Anything beyond that you will have to file a tax adjustment for yourself.
You get paid well enough on JET that you don’t need to be a mentalist and work a second job, no matter how “passive” you try and make it seem.
I asked once, they said NO (I was offered another job after the end of my contract but it was starting earlier than my last day).
So if you really want to do something be very careful.
Be very careful about remittance laws and income tax laws. Japan doesn’t play with those. Don’t remit any of the money you make in your home country into Japan because that is a very grey zone legally and getting less grey by the minute.
If you keep that money completely separate then it’s safe enough but I would not tell anyone at your workplace about what you’re doing.
Logging in and managing things sounds active to me. Passive foreign income refers to investments and rental income, for example. This should not be confused with an easy online part-time job.