RetireJapan

I'm a US citizen, a permanent resident in Japan, and retired. Among my retirement investments, I have a small Traditional IRA in the US that I opened years ago while working in The States, and I funded it for just a couple of years with $7,636 I earned before moving to Japan. Converting that $7,636 ...

Thank you. I appreciate the detailed replies. Although it will take me some time to fully digest all of the above information, I now get the gist of it. It would be extremely helpful if somewhere there were a simple, concise explanation, possibly in chart form, for various types of common income (US...

This just in.... I discovered the following in the technical explanation: Paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 17 are subject to the saving clause of subparagraph 4(a) of Article 1 (General Scope). Thus, a U.S. citizen who is a resident of Japan and receives a pension, a social security payment, or an annu...

Hm-m-m-m... This still is not settled in my mind. Far from it. Today I have been looking at the Technical Explanation of the US-Japan tax treaty, https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-trty/japante04.pdf . It was recently brought to my attention, and the following sections have me wondering. First, here's what...

OK. It seems like we're gradually getting to a more thorough understanding of the taxation of US Social Security for American expats living in Japan. To sum up things thus far, a US Person (such as the OP, booyah) who is resident in Japan must report US Social Security income to BOTH Japan and the U...

Tkydon wrote: Yes, the Article 1 US Citizen trap... on the US Side. Exactly! That's my point. There is also a US side to taxation here, and OP (booyeh) is a US citizen who falls into that " trap ," as you've referred to it. You're presenting things from "the Japanese tax standpoint&qu...

Tkydon wrote: 1. US Social Security - only taxable in Japan 3. Bank interest - only taxable in Japan Uh, I'm sorry, but I think you're mistaken. US tax treaties often have a so-called "saving clause" at the outset that basically says, 'Despite everything that follows, most of the benefits ...