Is the residence tax of Yokohama high?

Inhabitant tax (municipal tax, prefectural tax) is higher than other municipalities.
Resident tax is levied on income during the previous year in municipalities where Address is located as of January 1st. If you live in Yokohama City from June 2023, you will be subject to municipal tax, prefectural tax, and forest environmental tax will be imposed on Yokohama City from 2024.
Yokohama City has implemented the "Yokohama Green Tax" as part of the important financial resources of the "Yokohama Green Up Plan", which promotes initiatives to protect, creates and nurture greenery according to the regulations from 2009. For this reason, the tax amount of the municipal tax per capita rate is 900 yen higher per year than other municipalities.
In Kanagawa Prefecture, the excess tax on prefectural tax "water source environmental conservation tax" has been implemented for prefectural tax in order to conservation and regenerate the water source environment, as stipulated in the ordinance since 2007. For this reason, municipalities in Kanagawa Prefecture have higher prefectural tax than cities in other prefectures that do not impose excess tax (prefectural tax is levied by the municipalities according to the municipal tax according to the municipal tax. It is supposed to do.) 。
Due to the transfer of tax sources from prefectures to designated cities, including Yokohama, the standard tax rate for personal municipal tax and prefectural tax income percent is 8% for municipal tax and 2% for prefectural tax in designated cities including Yokohama. The standard tax rate for municipalities other than the designated city is 6% for municipal tax and 4% for prefectural tax, and the total tax rates for municipal tax and prefectural tax remains at 10%.

※The calculation method and tax rates for residence tax are all stipulated by the law of the Local Tax Law. However, local organizations may, if there is a special financial need, tax at an excess tax rate exceeding the standard tax rate stipulated in the Local Tax Law.