Corporate tax
Tax rate for resident companies |
The taxes levied in Japan on income generated by the activities of a corporation include corporate tax (national tax), corporate inhabitant tax (local tax), and enterprise tax (local tax) (hereinafter collectively referred to as "corporate taxes").
Corporations having paid-in capital of more than \100 million are subject to corporate enterprise tax on a pro forma basis, using a pro forma standard ratio of one-fourth. For the other:
| Brackets of taxable income | Up to
¥4 million | ¥4 million
to ¥8 million | Over
¥8 million | | Corporate tax Inhabitant taxes (1)Prefectural (2)Municipal Enterprise tax | 22.00% 1.10% 2.70% 5.00% | 22.00% 1.10% 2.70% 7.30% | 30.00% 1.50% 3.69% 9.60% | | Total tax rate | 30.80% | 33.10% | 44.79% | | Effective tax rate | 29.33% | 30.85% | 40.87% |
Source: Jetro
The rates for local taxes may vary somewhat depending on the scale of the business and the local government under whose jurisdiction it is located.
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Taxe rate on long-term capital gains |
In Japan, capital gains is taxed at the rate of 30%.
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System governing groups of companies and dividends paid by subsidiaries to their parent companies |
Dividends are subjected to a withholding tax whose maximum rate amounts to 5%, when the actual beneficiary is a company, which possesses directly more than 15% of rights to vote in a resident distributor company of Japan. In the other cases, dividends are subjected to a 15% withholding tax.
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Tax rate on branches |
Branches are taxed in the same way as the other companies in Japan.
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Income tax
Fiscal year |
The fiscal year begins on January 1-st and ends on December 31 of the same year.
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Income tax rate |
Rate is progressive from 10% to 37% divided in 4 brackets:
Tax rates, annual incomes in yens:
| 0 - 3.300.000 | rate is 10% | | 3.300.000 - 9.000.000 | rate is 20% | | 9.000.000 - 18.000.000 | rate is 30% | | Superior to 18.000.000 | rate is 37% |
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Tax deductions or
other allowances |
In Japan, fiscal deductions include:
Insurance allowances disease, life insurance, school fees etc.
Direct deductions for individuals:
-Annual fixed deductions of 380,000 yens per persons.
-Specific deductions are granted to disabled persons, elderly people, active students.
-an annual fixed deduction of 530,000 yens for peaple working aged from 16 to 22 years old.
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VAT rates
Standard rates |
In Japan, the common law rate of the VAT (this is a consumption tax) is 5%.
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Reduced rates |
Financial and capital-intensive transactions, educational and medical services are exempted from the VAT in Japan.
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Other important taxes
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Tax on royalties
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10%
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Tax on interests
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10% of their gross amount
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Donations and successions
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Exemption up to 600,000 yens, 10% until 1.5 million yens and 70% above 100,000,000 yens.
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Accounting
Introduction
Confidentiality in the japan accounting system is very important.
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Obligations and publications
Three different laws prescribe financial accounting and accounting edition in Japan:
The Commercial Code, Transferable securities and the Law of Exchange and the Corporation of Income tax Law.
The Commercial code gives the required regulations for a Limited Liability Company
(Kabushiki Kaisha) to prepare an annual report and appendice.
The annual report must be subjected to the general assembly of shareholders and must include the balance sheet and the income statement.
According to the law of transferable securities and the law of exchange, registrants must file to the Ministry of Finance the annual and biannual statement reports, as well as a copy in the foreign exchange markets where transferable securities are registered.
The corporation of income tax law gives methods to calculate the taxable income and require that incomes and charges must be registered in the account books to be qualified by virtue of the law.
These three laws are strongly interconnected in their objectives of accounting harmonization and are also called the Triangular Legal system.
Certification and auditing
The control of accounts has two main objectives. First of all, controlling the financial situations of companies, but also estimating the growth of a sector.
Professionals and representative organizations
- Finance corporation Research Institute.
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Useful links |
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For futher informations, please contact Invest Japan.
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January 2003
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