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Japanese term
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Native in: English
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従有
Japanese to English
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I am working on a tax withholding document that an employee at a Japanese company would fill out (源泉徴収票). The form asks whether the employee has any household members that qualify for a spousal exemption (控除対象配偶者の有無等). The employee can check one of three boxes: 有, 従有 or 老人. I assume if employee has a qualifying spouse, he/she would check 有, and if said person were 70 or older, he/she would (also?) check 老人. I am not sure under what circumstances an individual would check 従有. I interpret this to mean that the employee receives a salary from another employer, but am not sure if I am interpreting this correctly, as it does not seem to make much sense here.
So, my questions:
* Under what circumstances would somebody check the 従有 box?
* What is an appropriate English wording for this?
Thank you in advance for your help on this.
Steve
So, my questions:
* Under what circumstances would somebody check the 従有 box?
* What is an appropriate English wording for this?
Thank you in advance for your help on this.
Steve
Reference comments
4 days
Brendan Craine
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Reference:
Dependency exemption for secondary salary?
In poking around to try and answer your question, I found this English tax form from the 国税庁 that makes reference to a "secondary salary" (従たる給与) and its relevance to the spousal deduction. Both the English and JP versions of the form are linked below.
"If you receive a salary from two employers or more and a salary from one employer cannot cover all amounts of spousal (special) deduction, which is applied to a spouse qualified for withholding deduction, dependency exemption and deduction for disabled persons, you can divide a spouse qualified for withholding deduction and dependent relatives qualified for deduction and submit "Application for (change in) exemption for dependents of employment income earner regarding secondary salary" to other salary payers."
And, as described in the instructions for the form you referenced,
【従有】欄
従たる給与等において、源泉控除対象配偶者を有している場合には「○」
を付してください。
Which also seems to refer to secondary income in the context of the spousal dependency exemption. I am not well-versed in the subject enough to offer a definitive translation or explanation, but I hope these resources are of some help to you.
Sources:
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I see now that the question is already closed, but I will leave the reference comment up in case others are seeking this information in the future.
"If you receive a salary from two employers or more and a salary from one employer cannot cover all amounts of spousal (special) deduction, which is applied to a spouse qualified for withholding deduction, dependency exemption and deduction for disabled persons, you can divide a spouse qualified for withholding deduction and dependent relatives qualified for deduction and submit "Application for (change in) exemption for dependents of employment income earner regarding secondary salary" to other salary payers."
And, as described in the instructions for the form you referenced,
【従有】欄
従たる給与等において、源泉控除対象配偶者を有している場合には「○」
を付してください。
Which also seems to refer to secondary income in the context of the spousal dependency exemption. I am not well-versed in the subject enough to offer a definitive translation or explanation, but I hope these resources are of some help to you.
Sources:
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Note added at 4 days (2023-12-28 06:13:28 GMT)
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I see now that the question is already closed, but I will leave the reference comment up in case others are seeking this information in the future.
Reference:
https://www.nta.go.jp/taxes/tetsuzuki/shinsei/annai/gensen/pdf/r05_01_en.pdf
https://www.nta.go.jp/taxes/tetsuzuki/shinsei/annai/gensen/pdf/r5bun_01.pdf
Note from asker:
| Thank you, Brendan, this was very useful. |
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