Wednesday Feb. 21,

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I spent half a day Katsushika Tax Office which is between Tateishi station and Aoto station Keisei line. The office was packed with the filers who were wearing shabby clothes and I suspected there is shared wisdom that the attire for tax return filing should be miserable, or the opposite end of affluence in the rich and poor spectrum.
And my appearance in the venue was quite inconspicuous.
Many of the filers were as old as I am or greater.
For me and my contemporaries, feeding numbers into a terminal is as difficult as understanding tax rules on reimbursements. The office assigned one helper for ten terminals for assisting data input, yet demand and supply was in demand favor obviously.
My job was rather simple: creating my
account by feeding personal ID information and deciding password for the starting phase; then income compilation meaning that I feed three figures i.e. salary, government worker’s pension
annuity and general pension annuity; then deductibles and for my case it was only the cash payment portion of long-term care insurance, a government’s compulsory insurance policy. So one deductible count.
It took nearly one hour and I called the helper four or five times.
The black box “crunched” these four numbers for micro of micro seconds and told me that my reimbursement amount is seven thousands yen.
Two thousands yen out of future seven was spent for the lunch and lunch beer after the tax business!