RetireJapan

The number was the +44 191 203 7010 one. I was actually talking to a real live person within 5 minutes that time! I was so shocked I went completely blank and started gabbling about something or other before my brain reconnected. i have called a number of times and the usual waiting time is around ...

I paid some 10+ years worth of voluntary class 2 contributions a few months back. Of course no update in my government gateway account despite the 8 week deadline for the account to be updated having long since passed. I’m not really worried however - I have total faith in the UK government being u...

I just asked JAL credit card over the phone, and they gave it. There is a special telephone number for it.

If not paying your state pension is regarded as grounds for failing to pay your taxes, what is the status of not paying your NHK- isn't a tax as well??? I think you would get revoke the PR status of most of the foreign residing population and half the Japanese, at the same time.

Hello, I do not agree, we don't have to communicate Japanese TIN to another country. I have a broker account in the UK (Computershare / Equateplus) and for the FATCA/CRS self-certification I don't have to disclose it as I am protected by Japanese law. I found this as well: https://www.irs.gov/busin...

I have property income in the UK for which I pay tax on the rental income. The after tax income is not taxed in Japan but it IS added to Japanese income, which takes me into a higher tax bracket and which also means I have to pay higher health insurance and any medical treatment at 30 percent inste...

I bought mine 6 year second hand from. Honda dealer and it came with a 5 year guarantee that was 4 years ago and am happy with the support I probably paid more that buying online but like the support and service Previous second hand I bought from BigMotor and was not happy with that company’s suppo...

I bought mine 6 year second hand from. Honda dealer and it came with a 5 year guarantee that was 4 years ago and am happy with the support I probably paid more that buying online but like the support and service Previous second hand I bought from BigMotor and was not happy with that company’s suppo...

I knocked into a Hungarian at Starbucks a couple of weeks ago. We were chatting and he told me, he had 'right to remain' in the UK before Brexit. He had a Japanese spouse (she did not have the right to remain) and they had met in the UK. They had come back to Japan and had a son here, who was autist...

pulled in by one of their sales man at a ETJ or JALT conference??