We're approaching tax season for regular employees in Japan and I'm updating my Slack dingwords to include all of my weird but suddenly acutely relevant hobbies.
"Ah yes you would think that iDECO is 個人年金 since it is, after all, a pension (年金）which you pay for for yourself（個人）, but you'll copy that information into the 小規模企業共済 box instead. Why is a fascinating story; do you want to hear it?"
It's probably not my most leveraged way to make a dent in geeks' financial futures but the salaryman in me does think that I owe junior coworkers literally up to the legal limit of Not Investment Advice so they can scoop up the sweet sweet ~$400 of tax benefit available.
I was geeking out with my brother about this and he, a government employee no less, said "Patio if that is unscalable clearly its negative expected value for you to even think of it" and I said "Probably true but I get to tell stories about understanding Japanese tax procedure."
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