20% Withholding from Japanese Income

[arn]

http://macdaddyworld.com/2009/01/25/...f-missing-yen/

“There is a 20% withholding tax in Japan until the Japanese tax authorities have accepted your tax exemption forms. This can take 90 days or longer. … They were required at the contract setup time in iTunes Connect. If you haven’t completed these and sent them in, you must or you should not have been paid.”

Japanese tax exemption forms? This is the first we’ve heard of those.

thought some might be interested

arn