Zeimu Koho (Nov. 2024)
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The article written by our representative on the visa issues faced by foreign business managers and company owners residing in Japan has been published in the professional magazine for tax accountants, Zeimu Koho (Nov. 2024).
Please see the last paragraph of the article:
Due to the limitation of the space of column perhaps, our comment appeared on the paper was summarized in “Foreigners have strongly complained about both the income tax and the residency system”.
What I had actually told to the Nikkei’s reporter was that the lower corporate tax rate would not attract highly-skilled foreign professionals working for foreign financial institutes or investment funds when the income tax rate for them remained extremely high. Also I had told them that the immigration authority should allow highly-skilled foreign professional visa holders to sponsor a single or multiple foreign domestic helper visa(s) without conditions (like having a child under 13 years old) as long as they can afford to have the helper(s).
Interviewed by Nikkei on “Highly-skilled Foreign Nationals Visa” for the third time. We pointed out that the number of applicants for the “Highly-skilled Foreign Nationals Visa” remains smaller than the government expected because the visa does not necessarily grant the merit to its holders like the case quoted in the article where our client was not allowed to bring his parent to Japan, even when he met the requirements to be eligible for the “Highly-skilled Foreign Nationals Visa”, due to the additional condition (i.e. have a child under the age of 7 years old) required for the resident visa for parents, which is introduced as one of the merits of obtaining the “Highly-skilled Foreign Nationals Visa”. In order to increase the number of the highly-skilled foreign residents in Japan who shall enhance the Japan’s economy, the government should grant the merits including the resident visa for their parents or foreign domestic helpers to all of the “Highly-skilled Foreign Nationals Visa” holders without the additional conditions.