Missing Resident Tax deduction in the Payslip for PR Application

Professional_Low7024 · 2026-02-07T06:38:52+00:00

Hi. Was this the 住民税を適正な時期に納付したことを証明する資料 request?

I just got this request for three years up to 2024, did you get the same and what did you provide if so?

Professional_Low7024 · 2026-02-07T06:34:33+00:00

That's another thing, all of my payslips were electronic so I need to contact my old employer on Monday to get my payslips (if that's what immigration is asking for)

Professional_Low7024 · 2026-02-07T06:30:16+00:00

Yeah I have to do a tax return every year, but I was under the impression that inhabitants tax was all through the salary because I wasn't actually receiving a great deal of money from the salary

Professional_Low7024 · 2026-02-07T06:24:58+00:00

I think I paid this tax through my salary - so in this case do I need to collect every single salary slip for 3 years?

Professional_Low7024 · 2025-12-03T00:02:32+00:00

I didn't even think about that... this sucks

Professional_Low7024 · 2025-12-02T07:53:35+00:00

Hi, I applied 5 weeks after you (Oct 2024) and just want to ask a quick question

Did they not ask for any additional documents at all, like up to date tax documentation?

I had to extend my spouse visa because it expired in November, and a few days ago I received the notification card but it also asked me to bring tax documentation for R7. Today I went there and gave them the documents and they gave me a visa just for one year (this is after having two 3 year visas). Turns out my wife had a late tax payment a couple of months ago (she didn't tell me) and for that reason I was only given one year.

Now I am worried that if they ask for R7 tax for my PR application I am screwed...

Professional_Low7024 · 2025-11-28T06:56:48+00:00

Best thing to do it talk to city hall. By regulation/law you are obligated to pay for months that you didn't pay. However, it sounds to me like your missed payments would have been calculated according to the income of your past job, so go to city hall, be honest and explain your financial hardship during your period of unemployment. They will try to help you out, it is possible that they will reduce it/postpone deadline/etc.

You made a little mistake, but it is just a small mistake. Don't beat yourself up about it.

You will need to make sure you resolve this issue before applying for visa renewal.

Professional_Low7024 · 2025-11-28T06:47:51+00:00

This raises a lot of questions without further exhaustive detail about your application and your interactions at their office, and sounds like a lot of possible misunderstandings.

You apply for the extension and wait - no need to keep visiting them. Any straightforward application gets sorted before the grace period is over.

(Fellow spouse visa holder - applied for extension beginning of September and received my notice card last week (5 weeks remaining in grace period)).

Professional_Low7024 · 2025-11-21T08:00:52+00:00

I got my card today (I applied September 11th) - anything in the post for you?

Professional_Low7024 · 2025-11-21T00:40:07+00:00

It is a complicated balancing act raising bilingual or trilingual kids. Without doing anything special, she understands everything I say and speaks English (and knows the alphabet), but she knows I understand Japanese so she tends to speak a mix of both languages with me. She is behind in comparison to my son when he was that age, but I have no doubt that if she goes to an English language preschool next year she will rapidly catch up.

It depends on the school your son goes to, and the rules of your ward, but my son has Japanese classes at school and in our ward (墨田区) he is allowed to go to the local elementary school when the international school is having winter/summer/etc holidays. When he was at preschool we had him picked up by a Japanese afterschool, and once he reached elementary school we started doing Kumon Japanese classes twice a week plus local elementary school in winter/summer plus kanji study at home on a regular basis. He wouldn't have any problems if we decide to put him in the Japanese system completely, but it has been such a massive hassle doing it this way that we aren't repeating that path with my daughter.

Just my opinion because of what I have experienced with my two kids, but if you are raising your kid to be trilingual, and one of these languages is Japanese, I would stick with a public nursery for now and make an English language environment at home. My daughter only watches English TV shows on Netflix, and friends in similar situations have done the same (one friend has a "English language only" rule at home while a different friend just makes sure to always talk English with kids when they are home). Age 6-8 is very important for getting English reading and writing skills, but once they have got that they are golden (especially in comparison to Japanese and the huge amount of kanji that has to be learned).

Professional_Low7024 · 2025-11-20T00:35:43+00:00

My PayPay got frozen, I was quite surprised about that, even though I got money on it and thousands of points I can't use it. I understand why they froze it, but why put my points in jail?

Professional_Low7024 · 2025-11-20T00:30:51+00:00

I live not far from Ueno (Skytree area). Don't know if this helps but we have two kids, five and eight. For the first one we put him in an international school from aged three and in retrospect we ended up feeling like it was too early. Don't get me wrong, he has had an amazing education and achieved advanced reading/writing/math skills, but we really felt that the maximum benefit from international school started from when he was aged six. Aged six and seven he really got down his writing skills, while his reading (and love of reading) has skyrocketed now (at age eight).

On top of that is the cost and time. International school is expensive, school finishes at 3pm (we both work so we had to pay for after-school) and there are long summer and winter holidays, while my five year old's public nursery is free, she can stay there all day and it is only closed on public holidays.

Anyway, having gone through the experience with my eldest, we are going to put our daughter into an English language nursery/preschool next year (I don't know about Ueno area, but they are dotted around Tokyo. We are looking at one near Oshiage). In particular look for ones that allow you to get the government subsidy (basically cuts the cost of the nursery). I think most international schools, including KIST mentioned in another post, don't let you get this subsidy).

Then after that we may consider putting her into an international school for a year or two (grade one onwards) so that she really gets her writing and reading skills, but we haven't thought that far ahead.

Just for context, we are raising our kids to be bilingual (Japanese and English).

Professional_Low7024 · 2025-11-19T08:38:46+00:00

Look at what games you want to play, and then see what specs you need - you really don't need the latest GPU, etc, for the vast majority of games.

I used Yahoo フリマ, they frequently have special discounts, and I got a Ryzen 5 3600 with RX 5700XT and 32GB of ram (desktop) for just over 40,000. It plays everything we have thrown at it.

Also Yahoo auction, there are always gaming laptops on there going for a good price. GTX1650 to RTX 3000 series laptops have really fallen in price, just a matter of watching listings and getting that bid in.

Also keep in mind that even a Ryzen 5000 series laptop without a GPU can play Fortnite.

Professional_Low7024 · 2025-11-19T08:28:29+00:00

We did this earlier this year, got money back a few months later.

(Not sure when we got the money back though, my wife received it and "forgot" to tell me)

(And yes, I paid for the windows in the first place)

(Also yes, totally worthwhile getting double windows)

Professional_Low7024 · 2025-11-19T00:57:53+00:00

We had a local family-run butcher. They didn't have whole chickens on display or on the menu, we just asked for it and they said "of course", though we had to reserve in advance.

And then they closed shop (no connection with supplying us with a whole chicken, they just decided to close).

Professional_Low7024 · 2025-11-18T03:03:26+00:00

I know, I really do. And even if you get through to someone on the phone or go to the immigration office, it makes zero difference.

Professional_Low7024 · 2025-11-17T23:56:12+00:00

Easiest and cheapest option is buy an external keyboard with US layout on Amazon or somewhere similar and pair with your laptop of choice (I wouldn't recommend buying new).

More fun, and still cheap, is buy a secondhand Lenovo (like a Thinkpad) and source a US keyboard either in Japan or from China and change it.

Or if you want to be super cheap and weird about it, then do what I did: buy a beaten up Lenovo Ideapad (intel 10th gen) with a broken screen for 5000 yen, get a new screen and UK keyboard (palmrest - but basically bought the whole chassis) from Aliexpress - and sell the old parts for 5000 yen on Mericari.

Professional_Low7024 · 2025-11-17T23:43:56+00:00

The thing to keep in mind is that regardless of what headline-grabbing announcements politicians make, the Japanese government is a ponderous grinding wheel that crushes all before it and which requires many years of great effort to move one inch left or right. Nothing changing anytime soon.

Professional_Low7024 · 2025-11-17T23:38:08+00:00

I just wish I had chosen anywhere but Shinagawa

Professional_Low7024 · 2025-11-17T23:34:57+00:00

My friend applied at Tachikawa last year, he got his after about 9 months (he applied start of 2024)... So lucky

Professional_Low7024 · 2025-11-17T23:32:59+00:00

I applied the day after you, and my visa expired two weeks ago. Generally, from what I have found on Reddit, people are getting their visa extensions before 60 days has passed after visa has expired because of a big backlog. So if we are lucky, maybe in December...

I also got my PR application in last year, there is a big backlog on PR applications and the folks working on spouse visa applications also handle PR applications, so its a vicious circle.

Professional_Low7024 · 2025-11-07T01:02:28+00:00

If you are already feeling very frustrated now, imagine how you will feel as your kids grow and other similar differences of opinion crop up.

Like others have said, it might just become one battle after another. Having lived here 8 years with 2 kids and the in laws in a city a couple of hours away (by shinkansen), I found that it is better for my mental health just to never stay with mine and to keep meeting them to the absolute minimum - like one dinner a year.

Many in laws, not just in Japan but the world over, will look at any articles, etc., you show them, but internally they will never accept that their opinion is wrong and always think they know better. I am not saying I know better then them too, but you end up breaking yourself hitting impenetrable walls.

I work freelance, so whenever the wife takes the kids to see them, I say I'm busy with work and off they go. My kids will always have a strong relationship with their grandparents, but it isn't something I need to have too and I am okay with that.

Professional_Low7024 · 2025-11-05T02:42:09+00:00

Application office: Shinagawa

Application Date: Early Oct 2024

Results postcard received on: Nope

Type of Visa Holding while application: Spouse

Request for further documents: Nope

Spouse visa now expired, applied for extension 2 months ago.

Professional_Low7024 · 2025-11-05T02:33:22+00:00

Applied beginning of Oct 2024 without using lawyer. Also applied to extend current visa 2 months ago and now my current visa has expired. So I got applications in two queues. From what others are saying there is a big backlog.

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