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Why should a Japanese family pause before choosing the inheritance-settlement gift tax system?
My family is considering a sizeable lifetime gift in Japan. Please explain why the settlement-at-the-time-of-inheritance system is not just a simple exemption, and why choosing it changes the tax story later as well.
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