Many people who work in Japan send money home every month and claim their parents as dependents. Since 2023 this is harder than it looks. A parent aged 30 to 69 counts only if you sent at least ¥380,000 to that parent during the year, unless the parent is disabled, and each relative needs the papers of their own transfers: if all the money goes to your mother, your father does not count. Cash carried home proves nothing. The employer collects the papers at the year-end adjustment, usually in November, and by then it is often too late to send more.
So Japan Life Hub now has a record of money sent home.
Who counts this year
Add the people you send money to with their birth dates, then each transfer: to whom, the day, the yen you paid and how you sent it. The page applies the rule for each person's age on 31 December and says who counts, who does not yet, and about how much tax that is.
What is still missing
For a parent on the ¥380,000 rule, a bar shows how far you are and how much more to send by 31 December. A transfer whose receipt you do not have is flagged, and so is cash.
The statement for your employer
From three transfers to one person, the tax office accepts a statement (送金関係書類の明細書) that lists every transfer, so you hand in the papers of only some of them: the first and the last, and for a parent on the ¥380,000 rule more of them until they add up to ¥380,000. The page fills in the statement from your record, in Japanese, to print or save as a PDF, and says which papers go with it.
The page works without an account, and then the record stays in your browser. If you sign in and press "Keep this record and e-mail me", the record is kept in your account and you get e-mails before 31 December and before your employer's date. Without an account, a calendar file reminds you of the same dates. It is free and in seven languages.
