* * * * * * * * * T E R R I E 'S T A K E * * * * * * *<br>A weekly roundup of news & information from Terrie Lloyd.<br>(<a href="http://www.terrie.com">http://www.terrie.com</a>)<br><br>General Edition Sunday, Nov 18, 2012, Issue No. 687<br>
<br>+++ INDEX<br><br>- What's New -- How to Collect Tax on eBooks?<br>- News -- Jetstar reprimanded over safety checks<br>- Upcoming Events<br>- Corrections/Feedback<br>- Travel Picks -- Shimoda temples and Tsukiji dining<br>
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this year that he would use his January acquisition of <br>Canada ebook seller Kobo Inc., to deliver Japanese ebook <br>titles to Japanese customers, the Japanese Ministry of <br>Finance has had its knickers in a knot. The reason is <br>
because with Toronto-based Kobo, Rakuten would be able to <br>"do an Amazon" and bypass Japan's consumption tax laws by <br>selling Japanese-language ebooks from abroad. This would <br>mean no tax take for the Japanese government -- not <br>
necessarily a major threat if 1-2 companies do it, but an <br>unhealthy precedent if the same strategy was subsequently <br>followed by hundreds or thousands of other retailers. <br><br>Indeed, the way the yen is staying so high, international <br>
air freight costs are plummeting, and Japanese consumption <br>tax is set to double or triple, the Finance Ministry is<br>probably right to be worried. It is already possible for<br>bargain-hunting Japanese to import apparel, entertainment, <br>
and recently even groceries cheaper than it is to buy the <br>same things here, and all of these transactions are sales<br>tax-free. They are also import duty-free, because Customs<br>finds itself unable to cover inspection costs on imports <br>
valued at less than JPY15,000 or so. Therefore, it is <br>reasonable to expect that online imports will only continue<br>to increase after the nation's tax rate increases to 8% in <br>2014 and 10% the year after.<br><br>
So the Ministry of Finance, apparently using the online <br>ebook market as a test case, says that it is getting ready<br>to start taxing international web purchases at the same <br>rate as those sold domestically. The Ministry says that it <br>
plans to model its new taxes on the European Union tax <br>system, which imposes taxes on any company selling products<br>into an EU country and which has more than a certain <br>threshold of annual sales there. While we understand the <br>
rationale behind the Ministry of Finance not wanting to <br>miss out on taxes, the idea of modeling on the Europeans is<br>in our opinion a terrible idea. We say this because the EU <br>tax system on online cross-border transactions itself is a <br>
mess and is in transition.<br><br>How much of a mess can be seen in the number of <br>high-profile lawsuits going on at the moment against such<br>companies as Apple and others. Although not necessarily <br>relevant to Japan, which anyway has a single rate of tax, <br>
the EU tax system requires suppliers to charge the ebooks <br>at the Services tax rate rather than as products. In <br>France, this means that an ebook has to be taxed at 19.6% <br>while its paper equivalent is just 5.5% -- a ridiculous <br>
state of affairs which has caused France to unilaterally <br>decide to reduce ebook taxes to the same rate as paper and <br>in response for the the EU to threaten legal action to <br>stop them. <br><br>[Continued below...]<br>
<br>---------------- Go Global? it's not a joke! --------------<br><br>SunBridge Global Ventures, Inc. and Venture Now, Inc. have<br>created a entrepreneur competition to help Japanese <br>startups to become global thinkers and players. All <br>
competitors have been through a grueling series of <br>mentoring sessions and pitch presentations. Now we're down <br>to the final 8 contestants, with the winner receiving a <br>trip to the Plug and Play Expo in Silicon Valley. <br>
<br>Who will the winner be? Find out by coming along.<br>Date: Tuesday, 4th December 2012<br>Place: JIJI PRESS Hall (JIJI PRESS Building 2nd Floor)<br>5-15-8 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo<br>104-8178, JAPAN<br>Fee: JPY6,000 (JPY3,000 for students)<br>
<br>More details can be found at:<br><a href="http://innovation-weekend.jp/en/">http://innovation-weekend.jp/en/</a><br>-----------------------------------------------------------<br><br>[...Article continues]<br><br>More relevant to Japan is the fact that the EU idea of <br>
taxing foreign suppliers will create a lot of confusion and<br>loop holes. Both Amazon and Apple are based in Luxembourg <br>presumably because that country only requires them to pay <br>3.5% in sales tax, while selling into countries like the UK<br>
with a 20% rate of tax. While this doesn't sound like a <br>problem, in Amazon's case, the company has been accused of <br>making UK publishers compensate the company for the full <br>20% UK tax rate, then pocketing the 17% difference in <br>
Luxembourg. This situation won't last for long, however, <br>and apparently the EU is strong-arming Luxembourg (like <br>France) to increase its online tax sales rates to more <br>acceptable levels (presumably 15%-20%) or face legal action<br>
as well. Japan's solution to this problem is to require<br>suppliers to register as a taxable entity in Japan, and <br>they will be taxed here.<br><br>To make things even more complicated, over the next 3 years<br>the EU will move the taxable online transaction onus from <br>
the supplier to the consumer, which will be no doubt <br>possible in the EU where everyone is supposed to have a tax<br>record, but it will be a nightmare (or impossible) to <br>collect for anyone buying from outside the EU. Perhaps <br>
since online transactions as a percentage of overall <br>commerce in the EU are still minor, at just 8% at the end <br>of 2011, maybe the EU tax authorities have decided that <br>collecting taxes from non residents is not worth worrying <br>
about.<br><br>Anyway, for Japan, the situation will be difficult. The <br>idea is to have suppliers register with the Japanese tax <br>office as taxable entities even though they are not <br>resident in Japan. But without cooperation with the tax <br>
authorities of other countries, the Japanese will have no <br>enforcement powers. It may sound fine to say, "Oh, but we <br>already can do tax collaboration with IRS" (for example). <br>But the reality is that unless the case is worth millions <br>
of dollars, the authorities in either country won't want to<br>pursue a case that is difficult in terms of language and <br>legal enforcement. Also, it won't just be the Japanese who <br>will be contacting the IRS, the world's 100 other national <br>
tax agencies will be as well -- a recipe for a right mess.<br><br>Then, also, while the majors in the world such as Amazon <br>and Apple might be easy to go after, the idea of fairly <br>applying and enforcing taxation on all sales to Japan is <br>
laughable. How will they prosecute a company with 1,000<br>subsidiaries in the Bahamas, for example, each doing sales<br>under the threshold amount? In the EU the threshold is <br>EURO100,000, so this makes it easy for enterprising types<br>
to just spread their sales around to avoid being taxed. Or,<br>to simply fake their sales records -- how is the Japanese<br>Tax Office going to know?<br><br>Managing the Internet hydra is exactly the same challenge <br>that the government already has in trying to restrict <br>
online gambling and porn -- which in fact they can't <br>control. It's well known that the Japanese are the second <br>or third biggest (obviously no one knows for sure) users <br>of such services globally, and there are no effective <br>
controls in sight.<br><br>This means that to have proper enforcement, the Japanese <br>government will have to do something more radical than <br>simply asking the IRS to help it with cases of more than a <br>few million dollars. Instead, they will have to do <br>
something like trying to tax all digital traffic coming <br>into Japan which is conceivably related to a digital <br>purchase. In fact, we think this option is a high <br>possibility in the future, since the EU itself is talking <br>
about a similar communications tax to combat U.S. content <br>companies who are selling to EU citizens. We presume the <br>logistics will be performed by some kind of deep packet <br>inspection system similar to what the Chinese have to <br>
constraint political dissent. We can't see this level of <br>state intrusion going down well with the general voters, <br>though.<br><br>Another method of enforcement would be to tax the buyer. <br>This will mean that the government will have to force <br>
people to somehow register their digital purchases before <br>those purchases can be executed -- similar to how they used<br>to control foreign exchange purchases in the past. This <br>would of course be difficult to implement logistically, and<br>
then there are just so many work-arounds that it may not <br>make sense anyway. We already live in a world where you can<br>maintain a PayPal account in another country and use proxy <br>servers to pretend to be resident there in terms of IP <br>
address. So how would the tax authorities be able to tell <br>who is buying what from where? The fact is that they won't.<br><br>Perhaps the only thing going for the Tax Office is the fact<br>that the majority of book purchases in Japanese language <br>
around the world will be by residents of Japan. Therefore, <br>buildng on already existing law, the government could require<br>copyright/licence holders to only contract with overseas <br>resellers if those resellers are registered. In this way, <br>
the licences themselves could become the base tracking <br>mechanism of what was sold and where. This wouldn't work <br>for non-Japanese works, but then the Tax Office doesn't <br>care about that kind of material anyway -- so porn and <br>
gambling will remain a non-issue for them. <br><br>All-in-all, an interesting topic, especially when one man's<br>ebook is another man's email attachment... :-)<br><br><br>...The information janitors/<br><br>***------------------------****-------------------------***<br>
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- Japan probably back in recession this quarter<br>- Software outsourcing to Vietnam jumps 30%<br>- Photocell panel imports soar<br>- Jetstar reprimanded over safety checks<br><br><br>=> Profiting from wave of retiring company owners<br>
<br>Resona bank's President has told the press that the bank <br>will be focusing on baby boomer company owners getting <br>ready to retire. According to CEO Seiji Higaki, Resona is <br>putting on 25% more staff to handle the increase in <br>
business from SME company owners seeking to sell their <br>businesses and move the cash into rent-yielding apartments <br>and condominiums. Currently small business loans comprise <br>38% of Resona's loan portfolio of JPY26.2trn. (Source: TT <br>
commentary from <a href="http://japantimes.co.jp">japantimes.co.jp</a>, Nov 11, 2012)<br><br><a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nb20121117n2.html">http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nb20121117n2.html</a><br><br>=> Japan probably back in recession this quarter<br>
<br>Economists say that the economy shrank 0.9 in Q2 <br>(July-September) of this fiscal year, giving the nation an <br>3.5% annualized drop off. Exports were particularly hard <br>hit by a slow-down in orders from China, falling 5% for the<br>
period. Unfortunately, a repeat performance is expected for<br>the current quarter as well -- leading to the presumption <br>that the nation is already in a technical recession. <br>Apparently this will be Japan's third recession since 2008.<br>
***Ed: Significant improvement is forecast for 2013, as the<br>looming increase in consumption tax leads people to make <br>large purchases before the rise.** (Source: TT commentary <br>from <a href="http://washingtonpost.com">washingtonpost.com</a>, Nov 12, 2012)<br>
<br><a href="http://bit.ly/SVEEy8">http://bit.ly/SVEEy8</a><br><br>=> Software outsourcing to Vietnam jumps 30%<br><br>Vietnam's HCMC Computer Association has said that Japan is <br>the nation's largest buyer of outsourced software services,<br>
accounting for about 23.3% of total orders, and that the <br>torrid growth rate continues, at 30% a year. Likewise, <br>Japan's Information Technology Promotion Agency has said <br>that of 1,100 Japanese IT firms polled, 31.5% of them are <br>
choosing Vietnam for offshore development projects, <br>compared to 20.6% choosing India and 16.7% China. ***Ed: <br>Indeed, one of our group companies has found Vietnam to <br>offer the best compromise of quality, price, and <br>
reliability. Not the cheapest in terms of hourly rates, but<br>the most efficient in terms of actual working code and <br>speed of delivery.** (Source: TT commentary from <br><a href="http://vietnamnet.vn">vietnamnet.vn</a>, Nov 18, 2012)<br>
<br><a href="http://bit.ly/107BWKJ">http://bit.ly/107BWKJ</a><br><br>=> Photocell panel imports soar<br><br>Thanks to the new feed-in tariff rules, and high-value <br>payments to producers of alternate energy, the market for <br>
photovoltaic panels in Japan is booming. The Nikkei has <br>found that 32% of solar cells installed in July-September <br>were imported products, up from 19% in the same period <br>2011. Most of the imports come from China and cost about <br>
10%-30% less than local brands. South Korea is another <br>major source of solar cells, and one mega project in <br>Niigata, run by West Holdings, is using South Korean <br>panels. (Source: TT commentary from <a href="http://e.nikkei.com">e.nikkei.com</a>, Nov 16, <br>
2012)<br><br><a href="http://e.nikkei.com/e/ac/tnks/Nni20121116D1511A09.htm?GID=52">http://e.nikkei.com/e/ac/tnks/Nni20121116D1511A09.htm?GID=52</a><br><br>=> Jetstar reprimanded over safety checks<br><br>Although apparently not serious, Jetstar Japan has been <br>
reprimanded by the Transport Ministry for employing <br>aircraft mechanics with insufficient experience and for <br>having insufficient employees to conduct pre-flight safety <br>checks. As a result, a newly planned service between Narita<br>
(Tokyo) and KIX (Osaka) will be delayed, and other routes <br>between KIX and Naha (Okinawa) may also be affected. <br>Customers booked on the suspended service will be offered <br>alternative Jetstar flights or a full refund. ***Ed: <br>
Jetstar has responded by saying that the work done by the <br>engineers in question was OK and no issues were found.** <br>(Source: TT commentary from <a href="http://crikey.com.au">crikey.com.au</a>, Nov 18, 2012)<br><br>
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<br>+++ CANDIDATE ROUND UP/VACANCIES<br><br>=> BiOS, a Division of the LINC Media group, is actively<br>marketing the following positions for customers setting up<br>or expanding in Japan, as well as other employers of<br>
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experience. In addition, since this role requires direct <br>coordination with both regional and global IT teams, fluent<br>Japanese and English is required.<br><br>Remuneration is JPY4.5M – JPY5.5M depending on your <br>
experience and skill level.<br><br>** POSITIONS VACANT<br><br>- IMAC Engr, international investment firm, JPY 4M – 4.8M<br>- Desktop Engr, international bank, JPY3.6M – JPY5.5M<br>- Data Center Operator, DC service co., JPY3M – JPY3.6M<br>
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for other jobs: <a href="http://www.biosjp.com/positions.php">http://www.biosjp.com/positions.php</a><br>-----------------------------------------------------------<br><br>***------------------------****-------------------------***<br>
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-----------------------------------------------------------<br><br>---------------- ICA Event - December 11 ------------------<br><br>Speaker: Jason Wik, Managing Director - Sentry K.K.<br>Title: "Empower your Sales Teams with Realtime Mobile<br>
Workflow"<br><br>Details: Complete event details at <a href="http://www.icajapan.jp/">http://www.icajapan.jp/</a><br>(RSVP Required)<br><br>Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2012<br>Time: 6:30 Doors open, Buffet Dinner included and cash bar<br>
Cost: 4,000 yen (members), 6,000 yen (non-members)<br>Open to all<br>Venue is The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan<br><br><a href="http://www.fccj.or.jp/aboutus/map">http://www.fccj.or.jp/aboutus/map</a><br>----------------------------------------------------------<br>
<br>+++ CORRECTIONS/FEEDBACK<br><br>In this section we run comments and corrections submitted<br>by readers. We encourage you to spot our mistakes and<br>amplify our points, by email, to <a href="mailto:editors@terrie.com">editors@terrie.com</a>.<br>
<br>=> No comments this week.<br><br>***------------------------****-------------------------***<br><br>+++ TRAVEL DESTINATIONS PICKS<br><br>=> Shimoda - Gyokusenji & Tsumekizaki, Shizuoka-ken<br>A historical temple and beautiful coastal park (Part 3)<br>
<br>While Perry Road and the incredible beauty of Mt. Nesugata <br>can be easily accessed by foot, there are several sites <br>well outside the city that should be on everyone’s <br>itinerary when in and around Shimoda. In order to get to <br>
these places you’ll have to have your own car or hire a <br>taxi, as they are about a 25 minute journey from the town <br>and public buses might require considerable walking and <br>waiting. <br><br>From Shimoda take National Route 135 north into the winding<br>
mountainside, with incredible views of the bay. Be on the <br>lookout for the smaller Route 116 which will lead you <br>towards two prominent sites, one a temple of great <br>historical importance (about 10 minute drive from Shimoda <br>
Station), the other a nature park far from the throngs of <br>tourists that descend on many of Izu's beaches. (a further <br>15 minute drive). Hiring a taxi, saves time and allows you <br>to see sights outside of the city on your own schedule.<br>
<br><a href="http://japantourist.jp/view/shimoda-gyokusenji-and-tsumekizaki">http://japantourist.jp/view/shimoda-gyokusenji-and-tsumekizaki</a><br><br> <br>=> Toyo-chan, Tsukiji market, Tokyo<br>Hearty affordable yoshoku cuisine in the inner market<br>
<br>The Tsukiji fish market instantly conjures up visions of <br>giant frozen tuna, endless stalls of diverse seafood and <br>early morning lines for incredibly fresh sushi, but in the <br>midst of all this lies a variety of counter-style <br>
restaurants serving up authentic hearty comfort food. Most <br>people head directly to Building 6 in the inner market to <br>line up for Sushi Dai and Daiwa Sushi. Off the better known<br>main row of numbered buildings lies Building 1, where <br>
several yoshoku (Western style Japanese food) restaurants <br>are housed including the original Yoshinoya beef bowl <br>restaurant.<br><br>Toyo-chan is an unassuming restaurant with minimal signage.<br>Just look for the pig in a chef’s hat flipping an omelet. <br>
The space is small with only counter seating, but the <br>service is fast and the food delicious. Seating turns over <br>quickly as most of the customers are locals working in the <br>market. The menu is diverse with fried foods including pork<br>
cutlet or oysters, hamburger steak, or various stewed <br>dishes on rice including curry or hayashi (hashed beef). <br>The signature dishes displayed in the front window with <br>English translation are the omuhayashi rice and katsu curry<br>
rice. <br><br><a href="http://japantourist.jp/view/toyo-chan-tsukiji-area">http://japantourist.jp/view/toyo-chan-tsukiji-area</a><br><br><br>***------------------------****-------------------------***<br><br>***********************************************************<br>
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