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Japan Business Seminar for Foreign Individuals

Japan Business Seminar provides the latest resources and information on tax, social security, legal practices and other business issues in Japan. The focus of the Seminar is how they affect foreign individuals residing in Japan. Japan's tax, social security and legal environment is under constant change and this seminar keeps human resource personnel of foreign affiliated companies abreast with these changes. For those involved in any aspect of individual income tax and social security for foreign employees in Japan, this seminar is not to be missed.

Date: Friday, 25 February 2011
Time: Doors Open: 15:00
Seminar: 15:30 - 17:15
Venue: Grant Thornton Taiyo ASG Tax Corp. Seminar Room (Aoyama Bldg. 9F) >Map
Cost: Free
Intended Attendees: Human resource personnel, Foreign individuals with interest in tax and social security

Program:
15:00 Doors open / Registration

15:30 - 16:15
Individual Income Tax
-Taxpayer classifications and rates
-Salary structuring
-Real estate income

16:15- 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 - 17:15
Social Security
-Compliance with employment laws
-Exceptions to social security enrolment
-International social security agreements

*Please note that this workshop will be conducted in English.

Contact:
Tomoko Tashiro, Marketing Communications, Grant Thornton Taiyo ASG Tax Corporation
Tel: 03-5770-8836
E-mail: t-asgNews@gtjapan.com

Japan Tax -What individuals need to know

Date & Time: Wednesday, 23 April 2008 17:30~18:30 (Registration 17:15~)
Venue: Grant Thornton Japan’s Seminar Room >map
Aoyama Bldg.9F1-2-3 Kitaaoyma, Minato-ku Tokyo 107-0061

Cost: JPY 5,000 registration fee. If you are a client of Grant Thornton Japan, registration and attendance is free of charge.
Register by filling out the form. Applications will be accepted until Monday, April 21, 2008 or all seats are reserved, whichever comes first.All applications will be replied to with a result-accepted.

Contact
Tomoko Tashiro, Marketing Communications, Grant Thornton Japan
tel) 03-5770-8860
e-mail) t-asgGROUP@gtjapan.com

Japan Business Seminar for Foreign Affiliated Companies

Date&Time: Monday, 23 April 2007 13:30 - 17:00
Venue: Tokyo Shinagawa Conference Center 4F >map
Cost: No charge

Program(simultaneous interpretation)

13:00 ~
Registration
13:30 ~ 14:30
“Recent Developments in M&A Transactions”
Atsushi Onishi (Attorney at Law/Partner, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto)
14:30 ~ 14:45
Break Time
14:45 ~ 15:45
“2007 Tax Reform”
Hideharu Tanaka (Manager, CPTA, Grant Thornton Taiyo ASG Tax Corporation)
Paul Previtera (Senior Manager, International Tax, Grant Thornton Taiyo ASG Tax Corporation)
15:45 ~ 16:00
Break Time
16:00 ~ 17:00
Transfer Pricing and Intangible Property
Toru Nakamura (Director of Transfer Pricing, Grant Thornton Taiyo ASG Tax Corporation)

Doing Business in Japan

Time: Tuesday, 21 November 2006 13:00 - 14:30
Venue: Roppongi Academyhills 49, Conference room 1
Cost: No charge only for Grant Thornton clients, ANZCCJ members, CPA Australia members, otherwise 5,000 yen.

Program(This program is subject to change)

  • Welcoming Speech
  • New company law
  • Family corporations - tax treatment
  • Corporate taxation & compliance
  • Individual tax
  • Case study
  • Question & answers
  • Refreshments & networking

Doing Business in China

Time:Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:30 - 17:00
Venue: Roppongi Academyhills 49, Conference room 1
Cost: No charge only for Grant Thornton clients, ANZCCJ members, CPA Australia members, otherwise 5,000 yen.

Program(This program is subject to change)

  • Welcoming Speech
  • Issues for setting up new companies
  • Common troubles for foreign investors doing business in China
    ・ Issues with factory construction
    ・ Restriction on transferring foreign currency and trading
    ・ Outline of the Tax and Preferential treatment policy
  • Human Resources affairs
    ・ Chinese people's characteristics
    ・ Internal control
  • Case study
  • Question & answer
  • Refreshments & networking

Doing Business in Australia

Time: Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:00 - 19:30 Venue: Roppongi Academyhills 49, Conference room 1 Cost: No charge only for Grant Thornton clients, ANZCCJ members, CPA Australia members, otherwise 5,000 yen.

Program(simultaneous interpretation)

  • Welcoming Speech
  • Economic overview
  • Setting up and running a business
  • Business skills migration and working visas
  • Labor relations
  • Business taxation & compliance
  • Case study
  • Question & answer
  • Refreshments & networking