RetireJapan

I have the option of taking a lump-sum payment of around ¥15 million from a UK-based pension scheme. Under UK legislation it is paid to me free of UK income tax. I want to use it to pay off my Japanese home loan. I am a permanent resident of Japan for tax and other purposes. How will this payment be...

I wonder if you might be able to help with my new post at https://www.retirejapan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=194 ?? Together my wife and I stumped up with more than 35% of our total land + house price, mortgaging the remainder. Our housing guy said that we were relatively ‘sugoi’. Then I refi...

Am preparing to move house this year, receiving a Japanese bank home loan to help. Early next year I will claim the 1% home loan tax refund, but the form (住宅借入金等特別控除額の計算明細書, https://www.nta.go.jp/tetsuzuki/shinkoku/shotoku/yoshiki01/shinkokusho/pdf/h29/05.pdf) looks rather intimidating. I know that ...