Aomori City, Aomori Prefecture through the corporate version of furusato nozei, a Japanese hometown tax donation program. On April 6, 2026, transcosmos received a certificate of appreciation during a ...

Let’s face it: doing your taxes is no fun. This is especially true if you live in Japan, where it can come with all sorts of complications due to the language and an unfamiliar tax system. However, ...

Inside her home in Southern California, Mary Izumi sits at her piano flipping through the yellowed pages of her old songbooks. Along with her high school yearbook, they are the last remaining ...

Commission fees paid by local governments to intermediary website operators for Japan's "furusato nozei" hometown tax donation program reached 11.5 pct of the donated amount in fiscal 2024, an interna ...

Amazon Japan has entered the “furusato nozei” (hometown tax) program’s intermediary business, just in time for the year-end ...

Taxation is universally regarded as a dull, tedious subject that will dampen the mood of any dinner party, but Japan has an interesting system for residents that makes filing taxes feel like a ...

Miyagi Prefecture through the corporate version of furusato nozei, a Japanese hometown tax donation program. On April 14, ...

Since its inception in 2008, the tax donation program known as furusato nōzei has seen steady growth in contributions from taxpayers, who are enticed by gifts and tax deductions. But until recently, ...