Hey folks!
My company has become a lot more flexible post COVID and there is limited requirement to be in the office (maybe 1-2 days a week), I am thinking to buy a house outside of Tokyo and maybe retain some small low cost one room apartment in Tokyo as a base when I need to be in town.
Question: How does registration with the city or ward office work? Lets say my primary home is outside of Tokyo, do I still need to register with the local ward too? Is there some kind of special process for this so taxes are not complicated?
I know this is a bit of a tricky one, I wasn’t able to find anything online or in these forums. Thanks in advance for anyone who’s able to help!
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You don’t need to do anything, there’s nothing tricky about it.
You have a primary residence. You can rent as many places as you like, you don’t need to register anything aside from your primary living address. Japanese people who get sent on assignment to another city for a few years don’t change their address either.
Your “official address” with the government can only be at one place. You decide which one. I would just leave it at the one you’re company knows about, or the one you are usually at.
I have four places right now, but obviously I only have one as the area on my jyuminhyo, and that is the one my company knows about.
Keep one as your main residence for tax purpose. That is about it, do not need to worry about how many rentals you have as your landlord does not ask you to register that address as your primary address.
I’m guessing your full time ….. if not out check the tax rate for your different areas and choose the cheapest ted rate
Juuminhyou. You only get one. Thats where you live.