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NISA: Nippon Individual Saving Accounts. Warm up your engines, eager non-instutional investors, because a new type of tax free trust account is coming to town. That's right, I am talking about the much hyped NISA or Nippon Individual Saving Account (shogaku toshi hi-kazei seido 少額投資非課税制度) that is starting up next year. If you are investing in the future (and you should be!) , then this new system is a good opprotunity to get your foot in the investment door. Let's take a look... What is NISA? The NISA system is part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic reform plan. NISA is essentially a special tax free account for investments and investment-related financial instruments only. Each account has a maximum limit of 5,000,000 yen invested at one time and only increments of 1,000,000 yen can be invested per year.
The official kick off date for the NISA system is the start of 2014. Why NISA? NISA is part of PM Abe's carrot and stick approach to spur on Japanese savers. How to Get a NISA Online brokerages also offer NISA services. Shinsei Bank.