Reclaim your Japanese pension contributions easily online
You can claim a Japanese pension refund if:
- You’re not a Japanese citizen
- You paid national pension insurance for more than six months
- You left Japan permanently less than two years ago
So why leave your hard-earned money in Japan? Apply with Tax Quick Refund today.
What is a Japanese pension refund?
Employees in Japan are required to pay a contribution from their wages into a pension insurance fund. These contributions are typically 11% of your salary – although your specific contribution will depend on whether you are paying into the Government’s National Pension Scheme or your employer has a private social insurance plan.
The good news is – if you have left Japan and you do not intend to retire there, you can potentially claim a refund of your pension contributions.
Can I claim a Tax Quick Refund on my Japanese pension contributions?
Yes!
When you apply for your Japanese pension refund, 20% tax will be deducted from the lump-sum you receive.
Tax Quick Refund can help you claim a refund of this tax deduction and ensure you receive your maximum tax rebate from Japan.
Our average Japanese tax refund is ¥111,000.
Japanese pension refund FAQs
Yes!
The majority of workers in Japan pay into a pension fund and Tax Quick Refund can help you to claim a refund of your pension contributions for up to two years after you’ve left Japan.
- The Japanese social insurance office deducts 20% worth of tax off your pension reimbursement. The good news is we can help you claim that Tax Quick Refund up to five years later.
You can track the progress of your refund on your online TaxTracker account.
Once we have received your documents, we will check over everything, prepare your refund application and file it with the social insurance office. This process takes about five days.
Once at the office, your application takes about six months to process, depending on busy periods.
But don’t worry – our team will keep in regular contact with the social insurance office and keep you updated on the progress of your application.
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 Accountants 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 team!
- 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 TaxTracker account.
At Tax Quick Refund, we offer tax-filing and refund retrieval services for 12 countries, including: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Luxembourg, New Zealand, the UK and the US.
You will be entitled to a Japanese pension refund, 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
The total estimated time for your Japanese pension rebate application is six months (excluding delivery time of the refund). The Tax Quick Refund team will call you to inform you when you can expect it in your bank account.
The two most common reasons that your refund might be taking longer than expected is if:
- There are delays at the tax office
- The tax office demanded additional documentation from you
In the first case, we will contact the tax office regularly and seek clarifications regarding your application. If the tax office requires additional documents from you, we will let you know what is needed.
For Japanese Pension refunds we charge 20% of the refund received (+ handling fee), subject to a minimum processing fee of 10757¥ (+ handling fee).
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 help you find it!
Useful Japanese Pension Facts
- You will have contributed 11% of your salary into a pension fund – we can reclaim a portion of these contributions for you
- Tax Quick Refund customers get an average Japanese pension refund of ¥600,000
- The average tax refund on the pension reimbursement payment is ¥122,000
- You have up to two years after you leave Japan to apply for your pension insurance refund. If you’re working in Japan this year, we can claim your pension refund once you leave Japan