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Yokohammer wrote:Are you doing this via a personal or corporate account?
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matsuki wrote:Yokohammer wrote:Are you doing this via a personal or corporate account?
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US account is a company account that also has my name on it.
JPN account is a separate from my linked personal account, with the company name as well as my own. (they know it's for business but that the business is registered in the US)
wagyl wrote:The trigger amount which they don't want to reveal is usually around USD10,000, but they often ask outside that amount too, especially if they think there might be a history of repeated transactions, or transactions designed to fly beneath the radar. In other words, by asking that question, you are possibly on a greylist.
Not only is it legal to ask those questions, and prevent dodgy transactions, but they are required to, and the authorities will make it very hard to do business with a certain street in lower Manhattan if they think that they are approving transactions assisting money laundering (the banks really don't want to have to ask).
Yokohammer wrote:Maybe personal transfers are easier? That doesn't to make sense, does it.
Yokohammer wrote:Anyway, I find banks telling people what they can and can't do with their own money really offensive.
Mike Oxlong wrote:Wonder if this service would be any good for you...
http://goremit.shinseibank.com/index?lang=en
Mike Oxlong wrote:Imagine that, online banking in 2015...
Exciting times.
matsuki wrote:Mike Oxlong wrote:Imagine that, online banking in 2015...
Exciting times.
Don't get me started...the account the company forced me to create and deposits my pay into is such a small, local credit union that they apparently have almost zero online services. The monthly trip to the ATM's to withdraw and redeposit my pay is a lil reminder how "advanced" this place is.
kurogane wrote:If they're not careful they are going to rush headlong into the 90s any day now.
Matsuki,
You need a new bank.
kurogane wrote:BTW, are you using personal accounts for business transactions? Unless the regulations have changed I am rather sure that's a No No. Look around and find a business friendly bank, and lots of people seem quite satisfied with this Shinsei operation. A properly registered Yucho business account might be another option.
Mike Oxlong wrote:matsuki wrote:Mike Oxlong wrote:Imagine that, online banking in 2015...
Exciting times.
Don't get me started...the account the company forced me to create and deposits my pay into is such a small, local credit union that they apparently have almost zero online services. The monthly trip to the ATM's to withdraw and redeposit my pay is a lil reminder how "advanced" this place is.
Our largest regional bank down here finally got online banking going a few years ago, and the second-largest followed suit a year or so later. It's a real PITA to get signed up, as the interwebs = gaikoku = scary. All kinds of urging to install bloatware to keep me "safe".
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Matsuki, don't forget to thank Uncle Sam for all this bullshit hoops you have to jump through.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:A couple of days ago I was talking with a French guy who was a business partner on a couple of projects in the past. He told me he and most of his buddies in Europe and the Middle East where he does most of his business don't want American partners for most things anymore because of the headaches that come along with all the reporting requirements to the IRS once an American's name is attached to anything. I can't say I blame them.
kurogane wrote:Matuski,
Registering a company takes zip fuck all time (one long evening of paperwork and a visit or 2 to WTF one goes to file?), and straightening out your bank accounts might make your life easier, so it sounds like one short, sharp pain in the ass for future joy or more of the usual BS . I would at least look into that Shinsei Bank thing. A friend that knows better than I claimed they were at least 10 years ahead of all the other Japanese banks in terms of service and just general customer service mentality. And as another smartass friend then quipped: "Oh, so they're all the way up to 2003 are they?"
matsuki wrote:Samurai_Jerk wrote:Matsuki, don't forget to thank Uncle Sam for all this bullshit hoops you have to jump through.
Yeah, that's definitely a big part of it but it also seems like a move to reduce the outflow of money to other countries when they are denying you the right to transfer money into your own foreign account.Samurai_Jerk wrote:A couple of days ago I was talking with a French guy who was a business partner on a couple of projects in the past. He told me he and most of his buddies in Europe and the Middle East where he does most of his business don't want American partners for most things anymore because of the headaches that come along with all the reporting requirements to the IRS once an American's name is attached to anything. I can't say I blame them.
I get that with bank accounts but how would one's personal reporting requirements fuck up a foreign deal/company?
matsuki wrote:You also have major banks like Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ that only have a single fucking branch, if that, in other prefectures
wagyl wrote:since you are shuffling assets it is harder for them to show that they have done due diligence in ensuring that it is not you sending drug money or trying to evade tax liability.
wagyl wrote:But also think of the case of multinationals sending money to themselves in other countries as phony "intellectual property charges" to shift profits to low tax jurisdictions. Just because the account holders are the same does not free you from investigation.
matsuki wrote:Already signed up for the GoRemit service, mailing out the required unchi for it tomorrow.
inflames wrote: I personally dislike how they always require you to show your ARC (or whatever it is now) when you go in.
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