{"id":49834,"date":"2025-08-07T07:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T07:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49834\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T07:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T07:28:09","slug":"japans-inheritance-tax-is-high-unforgiving-and-sometimes-avoidable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49834\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s inheritance tax is high, unforgiving and sometimes avoidable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan has, by some measures, the highest inheritance tax rate in the world. It&#8217;s so high, and the related laws and rules so unforgiving and complicated, that a smart move to the country can years later suddenly look like an expensive mistake.<\/p>\n<p>The tax even compels some residents to abandon Japan altogether.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very easy to get into the higher rates of inheritance tax compared to in other countries,\u201d said Adrian Castelino-Prabhu, a principal at Grant Thornton specializing in international inheritance and gift taxation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan has, by some measures, the highest inheritance tax rate in the world. It&#8217;s so high, and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,99,1361,186,42174,42173,9281,36756,42175,184,185,8193],"class_list":["post-49834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-expats","tag-finance","tag-foreign-residents","tag-foreign-workers","tag-immigration","tag-inheritance-tax","tag-permanent-residency","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}