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>>thunde+(OP)
Japan is insane on the paperwork front. The amount of stuff my wife has to deal with (because my Japanese is frankly terrible) for basic processes is mind numbing. Things like having to write out your address and contact info on five different forms for one appointment, visiting multiple offices to submit paperwork in for the same process, etc.. Moving apartments (heaven forbid it is to a different city government) involves weeks of straight up administrative work from one person in the household.

>>Tagano+b6
I hadn't even thought moving would take multiple pieces of paper ...

In the US it's just https://moversguide.usps.com/mgo/disclaimer?referral=UMOVE

And this isn't even "required".

>>duxup+Db
How does it work with taxation? As far as I know, states and cities have various tax rates, so how do they know who is supposed to tax you?

It's often one of the main reasons why they ask you to register in other countries.

>>Lehere+kq
Depending on the tax.

For say sales tax like things if you buy something online the address you ship it to usually determines that. So no effort required there. In person if you're in TX you pay the TX sales tax (if they have one), if you are in NY you pay the NY sales tax.

As far as filing taxes for a year goes (income tax, property tax) you file taxes (or maybe you don't) and there you go. Filling taxes is largely a sort of declaration of what you say you did and owe. It's up to the state or feds to validate if they wish.

>>duxup+tv
Thanks. It looks like a trade-off between bureaucracy/monitoring and ease of fraud. I guess that's why the US seems to rely a lot more on property taxes than other countries, harder to evade.