Japanese Pension Refunds

Yes! The majority of people pay into a pension fund and we can claim a tax refund for this up to two years after you've left Japan.

You'll qualify for a pension insurance refund from Japan if:
You're not a Japanese citizen
You paid national pension insurance for more than six months
You left Japan less than two years ago
You don't have a place of residence in Japan

Because the Japanese Social Insurance office deducts 20% worth of tax off your pension reimbursement. Thankfully we can claim that tax back up to five years later for you.

The total estimated time for your Japanese pension rebate is six months excluding delivery time of the refund, but we will call you to inform you when you can expect it in your bank account.

You can watch the progress of your refund on your online Tax Tracker account - It'll go something like this:

• We receive your documents.
• We check over everything, estimate your refund, complete your forms and send them to the social insurance office. This takes around five days.
• Once at the office, your application takes about six months to process, depending on how busy they are.

Don't worry - our team will keep chasing them up to see how your application is progressing.

The two most common reasons that your refund might be taking longer than expected is if;
1. There are delays at the tax office
2. The tax office demanded additional documentation from you
In the first case, we will chase up the tax office every other day to get them to speed up your refund. If the tax office wants additional documents from you, we will let you know ASAP.

Thousands of people choose our service because:

• You get the maximum legal tax refund possible
• You get your own Online Tracking Account where you can track the progress of your application
• We have Certified Public Accounts who are trained in tax law and will make sure your application is fully tax compliant.
• If you’ve lost your payment documents, we’ll find them for you.
• 24-hour customer support and tax refund help
• Free phone, free fax, free post, free online tax help with our live chat!
• Multi-lingual service.
• Money sent worldwide and in your local currency.

The minimum fee enables us to offer you all of the services you need and value, such as round the clock support, tax training for your case manager so they can keep up with the latest tax laws in order to get you the maximum tax refund possible and maintaining your personal online Tax Tracker account.

Your pension book is the small orange or blue booklet you received from your employer when you first arrived to work in Japan.
To claim your Japanese pension insurance refund, we need your pension book (nenkin techo) and your pension number (which is in the book).
Your employer may have held on to the booklet for you during your employment and should have given it to you when you left. If you don't have your pension book or number we can get it for you – just let us know you need us to.

Sure thing; click any of the countries below to claim a tax refund from that country.

• Australia tax refund
• Belgium tax refund
• Canada tax refund
• Denmark tax refund
• Germany tax refund
• Holland tax refund
• Ireland tax refund
• Luxembourg tax refund
• New Zealand tax refund
• UK tax refund
• US tax refund

If you've worked in a country not mentioned above, email our team on info@taxback.com to see what we can do for you.