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Receiving Your Withholding Tax Certificate

When you change jobs within the same year, submitting your withholding tax certificate (gensen choshu hyo) from your former employer to your new employer allows your year-end tax adjustment to cover both periods. Issuing this certificate is a legal obligation for your former employer.

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Documents needed

✓None required — issued and sent by your former employer
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Steps

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Your former employer should issue and send the certificate within about 1 month of your last day

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If you started a new job in the same year: submit the certificate to your new employer promptly (your new employer will include your previous income in the year-end adjustment)

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If you did not restart work within the same year: file your own tax return (kakutei shinkoku) the following February–March

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Important notes

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Issuing the withholding certificate is a legal obligation of your former employer — if they do not provide it, you can consult the tax office

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Filing a tax return may result in a refund of overpaid taxes

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The certificate can be difficult to reissue — keep it safe once you receive it

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If you become freelance or self-employed, filing a tax return (kakutei shinkoku) becomes mandatory

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