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[Ninjaniki]

I was wondering how do you get a residency certificate so that you wont have to pay Korean taxes, and how long does it take? I will be working for a public school and I was told I needed a residency certificate as proof that I am a US citizen so I want have to pay Korean taxes.

[nuthatch]

I was told...and I did it...I went to the city hall where I live and they gave me a signed notarized card stating I was a resident of the city, in the state, in, of course, the United States. You just put it in your wallet.

However, after I arrived here to a rural town school district, when I tried to present it, and also fill out a required form for exemption (as stated in the contract), my supervisor (who speaks no English though understood what I was indicating by the contract translation) just pooh poohed the whole thing/process, and said it was not necessary, that "he" knew I was from the U.S., and so they never bothered doing that paperwork...and my monthly salary shows everything is okay....

[Ninjaniki]

Thanks. I will go to my city hall

[DrOctagon]

Do a search. There are two recent threads discussing this topic. Here, I'll even give you the link of the thread:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=129849&highlight=residency+certificate
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=129901&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=residency+certificate&start=45
Go to page 4 of the second link.

[Tobias]

You can count your blessings if you have a practical boss when it comes to this. Some of these MFers go strictly by the book.

My HR department used to have the care-free attitude, and then a new person came in to run it. On day one, I had a lump-sum tax taken out of my salary from May back to January. That sum included the final two months of my first year here. Now I MUST present the certificate of residency before the deductions will stop. Unless I can present this cert, I may not get that tax money back, although I'm still within in the two-year exemption period.

I'm now waiting on them to come to me asking for the taxes from those other ten months of my first year. If that happens, it's adios, amigos. My HR department knows where I live, yet refuses to abide by the exemption laws. In my mind, those take precendence.

[Boodleheimer]

if you happen to work for an unscrupulous school district (like the one i just left, which will remain nameless), they may have something in the contract that says that you must provide said form by the time the first salary is paid -- now, as a US citizen, you are royally screwed, since the turn-around time at the IRS is 40 days. if, as was my situation, you are doubly-royally screwed, then you arrived on the 20th of the month and your first pay (pro-rated, of course) is on the 25th.

now in my situation, i didn't find out i was screwed until i decided not to renew. then they decided that they couldn't possibly give me my severance since i did not deliver said form in time.

others (those who renewed) did not have tax deducted from their severance. (though technically, i suppose, they should have)




public school districts are not saintly and i do not intend to work for one again.

[nuthatch]

I hear you, KWhitehead, and I agree...the public schools are not saintly...i am having a problem with ignorant, unprofessional supervisors in a rural school district...

...and my main problem right now is a first-class dump of a one room ...and so I also wil not renew with public schools and the whole hassle of everything in Korean bureaucracy.

I pray they don't decide to start taking taxes out even though the a.. of a supervisor said he didn't want to bothered with my paperwork...it is really impossible to get anything done with all the male chauvinism in this particular office.

[fusionbarnone]

[fusionbarnone]