the thing they don't warn you about when you hire a cpa to do your taxes in japan as a freelancer is that although you no longer have to worry about self-filing your own taxes in a foreign language, you also have to spend exponentially more time talking to other people about taxes in that other language than you ever had to before
i'm 100% glad i have the cpa i do because god damn does navigating japan's tax system online suck ass, he and his other liaisons are very nice and earn every single yen of the not insignificant amount of money i'm going to be paying them every year for the forseeable future1, but god is it a special kind of suffering to wrap up a long work night and momentarily bask in the glory of putting that tedious work behind you, only to remember at 3:30 am that, no, sucker, you've got that email to them that you've been putting off and it's important and your life will be better for it, but it's still about taxes, so you've gotta power through and write the thing anyway, sometimes even in keigo for good measure
bilingual living, baybee!!!
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i might not live in a country where turbotax is a thing, and that's 99.9% good, except it also means it's a bunch of japanese government bureaucrats designing the system and not people with actual ui/ux chops, hence why i go to the trouble when i never bothered back in the states (but i honestly probably should've anyway instead of being a cheapass about it)