{"id":325148,"date":"2025-08-07T12:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/325148\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:21:14","slug":"japans-inheritance-tax-is-high-unforgiving-and-sometimes-avoidable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/325148\/","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":325149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[51,20291,474,117368,42052,40,3121,70771,2499,1523,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-325148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-expats","10":"tag-finance","11":"tag-foreign-residents","12":"tag-foreign-workers","13":"tag-immigration","14":"tag-inheritance-tax","15":"tag-permanent-residency","16":"tag-personal-finance","17":"tag-taxes","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114987459266845251","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}