I’m new to this subreddit, working as a FT English teacher, while my husband is on a dependant visa doing carpentry work. Thank you in advance for your assistance.
Now, I’ve received enough differing information on this subject to do my damn head in, so bear with me.
My company has told me that my dependant husband cannot (should not?) earn more than 1,030,000 per annum.
My understanding is thus:
A) my school pays me 14,000 yen per month as a kind of dependent allowance, lowering his earnable 1,200,000 yen to (1200k – 14k x 12 months) 1,032,000.
B) if a person earns over 1,200,000 they would need to pay their own national health insurance, which is no less than 300,000 yen.
C) obviously he can only work up to 28 hours a week anyway, and is currently getting paid 1050 per hour.
So, we have literally been advised that he should not attempt to earn more than the stipulated amounts unless he can earn more than, I guess, 1,500,000 yen. Any middle ground is literally a waste, and apparently some people will actively avoid salary increases that put them in this wasteful threshold.
Is this right? It’s nothing like tax in my home country (Australia) where once you go over a threshold, you then owe specifically for the amount you go over… or something like that. So… what gives? Is that just… it? And nothing can be done? Have we understood it all correctly? It’s a little frustrating.
by RecitedPlay