Domestic tax advisory
Your Company and Your Life
For Those Who Want Greater Prosperity
You want to understand your company's numbers and improve your accounting processes.
And you want someone to consult before making a major decision.
While carefully supporting your day-to-day accounting and tax returns, we can also consider the future of your company and your own future as its owner.
That is why clients turn to Yanagisawa International Tax & Accounting Office.
A view of your company's long journey
Where is your company now?
Starting up, growing, passing on the business: companies face many turning points. Whether from the beginning or partway through, choose the situation that concerns you.
This is a conceptual diagram of a company's journey. The length and sequence of stages vary, and decline is not inevitable. Specialist support at turning points requires a separate engagement and fee depending on the work.
Your Tax Adviser Supports You throughout This Annual Cycle.
Use the numbers established at year-end to plan the next year. Each year's work supports better business decisions.
Your Staff and Ours Handle Day-to-Day Accounting Together.
Management decisions and significant tax matters are discussed directly between the business owner and our principal and tax accountant, Kenji Yanagisawa. You can consult him when needed by email, LINE, phone, and other channels.
STORY 01 / From the Start
When You Build the Processes at the Start,
Making the Numbers Useful for Management.
We have supported one law firm since its establishment. The first task was designing its management and accounting processes.
They keep their own books and understand the numbers, check tax questions, and consult Kenji Yanagisawa, Principal and Certified Tax Accountant, on management decisions. Through this process, the professional running the practice developed a strong understanding of the accounting figures, and the practice grew.
Beyond completing tax returns, we want to help owners understand their businesses through the numbers.
In-House Bookkeeping Does Not Mean the President Must Always Enter the Data
It means building the capacity to keep your own books. We help with selecting and introducing accounting software, learning to use it, and establishing daily accounting workflows.
We design an approach suited to your company, using cloud accounting and automated entries where helpful. You do not need to understand every detail from the outset or be skilled with numbers or IT. Even after handing accounting to a staff member, it is important for the owner to understand the figures.
STORY 02 / Joining Along the Way
I Took Over the Company, But
I Do Not Understand How Its Money Moves.
A third-generation president had just taken over the business. His mother had handled the bookkeeping until then, and he wanted to try keeping the books himself.
Together, we reviewed everything from changing accounting software and learning to use it to double-entry bookkeeping basics and the connection between the books and financial statements. The president kept the books personally for the first one to two years, then handed the task to accounting staff.
Even after someone else took over data entry, the owner retained the ability to understand the numbers. As the company's cash movements became clearer, discussions with our principal and tax accountant, Kenji Yanagisawa, became deeper. Putting advice into practice helped build profits and strengthen the company's finances.
Reviewing your relationship with your tax advisor can also be an opportunity to reconsider how you engage with your company's numbers.
Another Example: From Tax Advice to Fundraising and a Business Sale
Our relationship with Gradco Japan Co., Ltd. began when its CFO, who had handled tax matters, retired. A review of past tax treatment uncovered an error in the per capita portion of inhabitant tax, leading to a refund.
Support later expanded to business innovation plan certification, fundraising, and a sale to focus the business's activities. This case shows how knowing a company through ongoing work can broaden the scope of advice.
This historical example is based on a client testimonial published in 2015. It does not indicate a current advisory engagement.
Read the original client testimonial →Each example reflects an individual experience. Company growth and performance depend on many factors, including management's efforts and the business environment.
Reliable Day-to-Day Work
The working methods learned at KPMG Tax Corporation,
Including Routine Tax Return Preparation.
Kenji Yanagisawa, Principal and Certified Tax Accountant, previously worked at KPMG Tax Corporation. Since establishing his own office, he has continued to base judgments on evidence and place importance on the verification process.
- Make decisions based on evidence.
Through questionnaires and document requests, we verify transaction facts and supporting evidence. - Make Review Part of the Process.
We use checklists and require review by at least two people, including someone other than the preparer. - Final review by our principal and tax accountant, Kenji Yanagisawa.
Returns prepared by staff are submitted only after review by our principal and tax accountant, Kenji Yanagisawa. AI is also used as a review aid.
We prepare returns that can be explained from the outset, rather than waiting for an audit to decide how to explain them. That is the foundation of our work.
Even during a Tax Audit
Check the Grounds,
and Seek an Acceptable Resolution.
Our principal, tax accountant Kenji Yanagisawa, attends and handles tax audits. We distinguish what can be substantiated by documents from what needs correction and consider solutions in light of the impact on the company.
While seeking resolution at the audit stage, we can also support requests for review by the National Tax Tribunal and litigation in cooperation with lawyers experienced in tax disputes. Our experience of later stages is precisely why we do not treat disputing a matter as an end in itself.
Prepare for and respond to audits
From reviewing routine supporting evidence to explaining matters to auditors and examining their findings.
View Tax Audit Support →When you disagree with an assessment
We explain support for administrative appeals and tax litigation in cooperation with lawyers.
View Tax Dispute Support →Tax audit and dispute support are charged separately from the advisory retainer. Scope and fees are explained for each case.
Before You Decide, There Are Options to Consider.
The facts of completed transactions cannot be changed. Future transactions and your company's direction can still be planned before implementation. Expanding overseas, selling the company, or handing it to a successor: we ask about your own wishes as well as the company's needs.
You can also consult us about succession to a successor or procedures for closing a company. We work with the necessary specialists to consider an approach suited to your circumstances.
When you want a written record of your reasoning
For major company events such as business restructuring, you may want to document the basis for tax decisions. We can prepare tax opinions on both completed transactions and planned transactions.
Tax Opinion Services →Ongoing Advisory Agreements and Individual Consultations
If you want to manage accounting internally while using specialists for tax checks and important decisions, we can help from the introduction of in-house bookkeeping. We accept engagements at startup and also following business succession or a change of tax advisor.
We quote advisory fees after reviewing your business activities, size, consumption tax status, and required scope. Separate assignments such as overseas expansion planning, M&A, tax audits and disputes, and tax opinions are discussed separately according to their content.
Japanese Tax Advisory Fee Schedule
| Services | Consumption tax-exempt businesses | Businesses subject to consumption tax |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly advisory fee | From JPY 30,000 | From JPY 50,000 |
| Year-end accounts and tax return preparation fee (Once a year) | From JPY 240,000 | From JPY 400,000 |
We quote based on the business, scale, and scope. Specific engagements such as tax audits, overseas expansion, M&A, and tax opinions are charged separately.
Choose How You Would Like to Consult Us.
Consult Directly with Kenji Yanagisawa, Principal and Certified Tax Accountant
For a direct 60-minute consultation with our principal, tax accountant Kenji Yanagisawa, without a preliminary email inquiry, book here. The fee is JPY 55,000 for either an online or in-person consultation.
Where consumption tax applies, it is included in the displayed price. Where export exemption applies, the full displayed amount is the consultation fee. Your total payment remains the same in either case.
You will proceed to the card payment screen. After your application, we will arrange the consultation date, time, and format.
Start with an Email Inquiry
Inquiries about advisory agreements are free. Please email us first about services, fees, or coordination with your current tax adviser. Where specific tax judgments or advice are needed, we recommend a paid consultation.
There is no charge for submitting an inquiry. Please also use this form if you prefer to pay by bank transfer.
Inquiries about advisory agreements are free. We explain the scope and fees after receiving your inquiry.