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title: "Accountant and outsourced-accounting pricing and options"
url: https://memocore.ai/memos/6a5f63bd63d783ad6870948a
project: "Doing Business in Japan"
tags: "japan-business, accounting-and-services"
updated_at: "2026-07-21T12:19:09.528Z"
---

# Accountant and outsourced-accounting pricing and options

A visiting/remote tax accountant (zeirishi, 税理士) typically charges around 15,000 yen/month plus 80,000 yen for the annual filing for a sole proprietor (roughly double for an LLC/KK). Another example: 30,000 yen/month plus 300,000 yen for the annual filing. Freelance accountants can be found via freee (with an English-language filter) or via meetsmore.com. zeroichitax.com does freee bookkeeping for a KK for 20,000 yen/month, including electronic filing. Cloud Partners' cheapest plan starts at 15,000 yen/month, but it doesn't enter data into freee itself — only review, consultation, and partial filing. UR Cloud (ur-cloud.jp) charges roughly 120,000 yen/year (can run about 20% higher in practice) or about 15,600 yen/month, with an English-language option at double the price; per another mention, it's organized but "assembly-line," not personalized, at about 200,000 yen for a one-off turnkey annual filing. Overall, full accounting support ranges from about 33,000 yen/month subscriptions (communication via Slack/email, annual report within a week) to a one-off turnkey annual filing for 200,000 yen. Useful search keywords: 税理士　確定申告　個人事業. Time needed for a quarterly/annual report: for a small company (1 part-timer, ~300 transactions over 3 months), up to a month during the "kakutei" filing season is considered normal — it's worth agreeing on a timeline with the accountant in advance. Outsourced payroll (salary calculation for employees) runs around 5,500 yen/month; annual reports (年次決算/shinkoku) are usually billed separately from monthly bookkeeping by accountants. See: Bookkeeping model and freee plans.

Source: https://meetsmore.com/ — Freelancer and service search platform, including accountants. Source: https://ur-cloud.jp — UR Cloud accounting service website.