Overview
- Tax offices nationwide began accepting 2025 income tax returns on February 16, 2026.
- The National Tax Agency is urging use of e-Tax on PCs and smartphones with My Number and MyPortal integration that auto-fills data such as salary, medical expenses, and hometown donation records.
- Actor Hideki Takahashi and his spouse demonstrated the process at the Shinagawa Tax Office, completing a mock electronic return in under ten minutes.
- Those required to file include self-employed individuals, employees with annual salaries over ¥20,000,000, and people with more than ¥200,000 in non-salary income.
- Key deadlines are March 16 for income and gift taxes and March 31 for consumption tax filings by sole proprietors.