>>69813703It's not as much of a deal as people make of it in terms ofnthe law. Mainly it's Japan's transition to a VAT system, where every legal entity has a VAT number they need to put on invoices so that they are tax deductable.
Having that is not mantory, but you may loose the ability to make invoices with your VAT number, which some businesses may not like.
Obviously this system needs a system so that people can verify the VAT number. This is where the problem comes in. Japan decided to make this available as a CSV file.
(In other countries they provide a verification tool, that is a lot better and you basically can just verify the information you are give in an invoice)
So there are two options. You get a VAT number so you can write invoices properly. Or you don't get one and businesses might not do business with you because they cannot write off the invoices you sent them. If you are part of an agency the agency does the business side. So it's not that big of a problem. But your business with your agency (remember the person behind the Vtuber is self-employed) might be affected, but their business pseudonym is not the name of the Vtuber. It's also not like someone might do the business side under their pseudonym. Biggest affected are Mangaka or Artists who operate under a pseudonym because they do genres that are looked down upon.
There is also a trasition period where both systems work.
