Hello, I am planning to do a side job on top of my main job in order to make extra money.
My main job's company do the tax payment directly deducting it from my salary.
however to do this activity I need to pay transportation from my pocket which the company will refund and pay me back at the moment of payment.
As it's a freelance activity the people and companies will pay me directly to my wise bank account.
The thing is that because it is a freelance activity they don't do the 10percent tax withdrawal.
Other element is don't have a credit card In Japan I will send it to my foreign bank account. Then Withdraw the money here using my foreign banks credit cards.
question
1-is there a limit amount from which I should report those incomes to Tax ?
2-how do I proceed to report this tax through Wise ?
I didn't want to get paid cash and want to do things the correct way.
I need your advise on this . Thanks
I am a resident in Japan with PR.
by Smooth-Report1059
2 comments
The taxability of income is determine primarily by where you _physically were_ when you were doing the work. It doesn’t matter what bank account you are paid into.
It is very unclear what you are actually asking. At the end of the year, you will need to file a tax return to report your additional income. You can do this online using a Myna card. (For money earned during 2026, the tax filing deadline is 2027 March 15). If tax isn’t being deducted but is due, you will have to pay more at tax return time, but it’s not a problem.
Committing reimbursement is generally, up to a certain amount, not taxable, so you might not owe any tax on that. But if you are a freelancer it’s possible you will need to retain some documents to demonstrate the amount spent commuting; I’m not exactly sure
No, tax return filing only happens once a year (for the previous year). You cannot file micro tax returns.
Before engaging in freelance work you may want to first familiarize yourself a bit more with how you would report taxes.
In your case, assuming you only do a bit of sidejob (that is not classified as employment) work it would have to be reported as miscellaneous income (雑所得). There you can also report the associated expenses (in total JPY), like commuting cost to the job sites, etc.
If *outside* of your main job you only make less than a total of 200,000 JPY net income in a given year you don’t have to file a national income tax return. However you would *still* be expected to file a resident tax return.
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