Other services (reduction of utility charges and taxes, etc.)

If the taxpayer of income tax or the taxpayer's deductible spouse or dependent relative is 65 years of age or older and is certified by the Director of Health and Welfare Center as eligible in the table below, You will be subject to disability deduction.
For more information, please see the Kanagawa Tax Office (National Tax Agency) page (outside site).

Kanagawa Tax Office
Telephone: 045-544-0141
(However, if income tax is withheld from salary, the salary clerk at the place of work)

Kanagawa Ward Elderly and Disabled Support Division
301 window on the 3rd floor of the annex
Telephone: 045-411-7110
Fax: 045-324-3702

If the taxpayer of municipal tax and prefectural tax or the spouse or dependent relative of the taxpayer is 65 years of age or older and is certified by the Director of Health and Welfare Center as applicable to the table below, It is subject to deduction for persons with disabilities of municipal tax and prefectural tax.

Kanagawa Ward Office Tax Division (City Tax Section)
325 window on the 3rd floor of the main building
Telephone: 045-411-7041
Fax: 045-323-1369
(However, if income tax is withheld from salary, the salary clerk at the place of work)

Kanagawa Ward Elderly and Disabled Support Division
301 window on the 3rd floor of the annex
Telephone: 045-411-7110
Fax: 045-324-3702

We reduce water rate of home having severe care recipient and basic rate equivalent of sewerage system usage fee.

Households that care for those who need nursing care 4 or 5 at home

Water rate: Basic fee equivalent (1,659 yen per 2 months including tax)
Sewerage fee: Amount equivalent to basic amount (1,323 yen per 2 months tax included)

Water Works Bureau Customer Service Center
Telephone: 045-847-6262
Fax: 045-848-4281

oversized garbage is exempt from processing fees up to four per year.
※Air conditioners, televisions, electric refrigerators, electric freezers, electric washing machines, personal computers, etc. are not collected in the city.
(Not applicable to the oversized garbage processing fee exemption)

• Households to which those aged 65 or older who are certified as requiring nursing care 4 or nursing care 5 belong to
• Elderly people aged 70 or older who have difficulty bringing in oversized garbage by themselves (requires certification fromHealth and Welfare Center)

Oversized Garbage Reception Center
Reception hours: From 8:30 to 17:00 from Monday to Saturday (holidays are also accepted except during the year-end and New Year holidays)
Telephone: 0570-045-110 from home landline phones and mobile phones

From IP phone / PHS 045-330-5129

Fax: 045-662-1225 (only for hearing-impaired persons)
Internet reception: Please refer to the Internet reception page (external site).

"Those living alone" who fall under any of the following and have difficulty in cooperating with nearby people and cannot take garbage to collection places etc.

1. 65 years or older
2. Those who have been issued a certificate of the physically disabled
3. Those who have been issued a notebook of love
4. Those who have been issued the Mental Handicapped Health and Welfare Handbook
5. Those who have been certified as needing nursing care or support

In addition, even if there is a cohabitant, it is eligible if the cohabitant is an elderly person or a young person and cannot take out garbage.

1. household garbage: From the entrance of the target person's house to collection site, we work with volunteers to dispose of garbage.
2. oversized garbage: We enter the target person's house and collect it.

Resources and Waste Recycling Bureau Kanagawa Office
Reception hours: From 8:00 to 16:45 from Monday to Saturday
Telephone: 045-441-0871

If you pay more than 100,000 yen in a year (the sum of medical expenses for all relatives who have the same livelihood as you), you can deduct your income as a deduction for medical expenses bymedical expenses. The cost of nursing care used in The Long-term Care Insurance is also recognized as a deductible for medical expenses.
Specifically, please see page of (National Tax Agency) (outside site) of Kanagawa office.

• Medical services

Home-visit nursing, home-visit rehabilitation, tsusho rehabilitation, short-term nursing care, home care management guidance

• Home service used in conjunction with medical services

Physical care and boarding assistance such as outpatient visits, visiting bathing care, day care, short-term entrance life care)

• Facility services

If you are in a nursing care insurance facility

If the service you are using is eligible, the co-payment paid when using the service is subject to the medical expenses deduction, so please obtain the “Home Service Usage Fee Receipt” and “Receipt for Nursing Home Care Facility Usage Fees” stating the “Amount subject to medical expenses Deduction”. You will need a receipt when you file a tax return with the tax office when you file a medical expenses deduction.

Kanagawa Tax Office
Telephone: 045-544-0141

It is for those who have been certified as needing nursing care 5. However, it is limited to those who have applied to the Ward Election Commission in advance and have received a voting certificate such as mail. In addition, as person with severe disability may correspond, please ask ward Election Administration Committee in detail.

You can vote for absentees at home, etc. by mail. In order to use this system, at the time of election, it is necessary to request a ballot from the Ward Election Commission after attaching a voting certificate such as mail at least 4 days before the election day.
Furthermore, when we correspond to any of the following, we can have one proxy registrant (person having the right to vote) who reported to ward Election Administration Committee beforehand list vote. (Substitute entry system for absentee voting by mail)

1. Those who have been issued a certificate of the physically disabled and have a grade 1 degree of upper limb or visual impairment.
2. Those who have been issued a certificate of war victims and whose degree of upper limb or visual impairment is from special symptoms to second symptoms.

Specifically, please see page of Yokohama-shi board of elections.

Kanagawa Ward Election Commission
Telephone: 045-411-7014

Property tax and income tax may be reduced when those who are certified as requiring nursing care or support or those with disabilities are subject to barrier-free renovation work.

About construction performed from April, 2007 to March, 2010, when self-pay amount is more than 300,000 yen, we may be able to reduce.
Specifically, please see page of Yokohama city tax.

Kanagawa Ward Office Tax Division (House) Main Building 3F
Telephone: 045-411-7054

If a certain person performs certain barrier-free renovation work on his / her own residential house between April 1, 2007 and December 31, 2008, the current housing renovation loan tax reduction system And you can choose the housing barrier-free renovation promotion tax system.
Specifically, please see page of Kanagawa tax office (National Tax Agency) (outside site).

Kanagawa Tax Office
Telephone: 045-544-0141