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by Tkydon
Fri May 10, 2024 11:53 am
Forum: Pension
Topic: Newbie Question
Replies: 10
Views: 140

Re: Newbie Question

bYea, so to calculate the annuity (what you get in retirement) for both national pension and employee separately and then add them together. Because every month you pay employee pension you’re paying national pension at the same So in their case if they only ever contributed 120 months to employee ...
by Tkydon
Fri May 10, 2024 9:07 am
Forum: Pension
Topic: Newbie Question
Replies: 10
Views: 140

Re: Newbie Question

https://www.nenkin.go.jp/international/japanese-system/nationalpension/nationalpension.html This page refers to the Basic Japanese Pension if you are not employed, student, self-employed, etc.. If you are employed, you are covered by the National Employees' Pension Insurance - Kousei Nenkin https:/...
by Tkydon
Fri May 10, 2024 7:54 am
Forum: Pension
Topic: Newbie Question
Replies: 10
Views: 140

Re: Newbie Question

https://www.nenkin.go.jp/international/japanese-system/nationalpension/nationalpension.html This page refers to the Basic Japanese Pension if you are not employed, student, self-employed, etc.. If you are employed, you are covered by the National Employees' Pension Insurance - Kousei Nenkin https://...
by Tkydon
Fri May 10, 2024 7:47 am
Forum: Taxes
Topic: Summary of taxation rights under Japan's tax treaties
Replies: 1
Views: 61

Re: Summary of taxation rights under Japan's tax treaties

Since some US/Japan treaty articles were being discussed here ( separate thread ), it's interesting that this just came up--newly added to the (reddit) JapanFinance wiki. Nicely done in table form: Summary of taxation rights under Japan's tax treaties And, the thread announcing this. Nice job by St...
by Tkydon
Wed May 08, 2024 9:20 am
Forum: General
Topic: Best Credit Card for a Student
Replies: 5
Views: 256

Re: Best Credit Card for a Student

How old?

Does said student have a NISA or iDeCo?

Rakuten Card, NISA, etc... ???

If not yet 18, then a Family Card...
by Tkydon
Wed May 08, 2024 9:17 am
Forum: Pension
Topic: UK pension living in Japan
Replies: 32
Views: 1213

Re: UK pension living in Japan

Bubblegun wrote: Wed May 08, 2024 6:14 am Thanks for that. Complicated as ever as the UK pension is monthly and the Japanese is bi-monthly. I really need to have a degree in economic math at this rate. 😂. Sadly not the average rate. 😂
Sorry, my bad. Monthly rate (corrected above).

Yeah, the devil is in the detail ;-)
by Tkydon
Mon May 06, 2024 1:14 pm
Forum: Pension
Topic: UK pension living in Japan
Replies: 32
Views: 1213

Re: UK pension living in Japan

Personal Pensions, whether paid by the Pension Administrator or paid from an Annuity are not Public Pensions, and so are not included in the calculation for the 'Public Pension Deduction'. UK National Pension, US Social Security, Australian Super-Annuation, etc., are Public Pensions, and so are incl...
by Tkydon
Sun May 05, 2024 5:43 am
Forum: Stock market investing
Topic: Options for US citizens in Japan
Replies: 32
Views: 28503

Re: Options for US citizens in Japan

Many thanks for the discouraging news that U.S. citizens can't take advantage of the new NISA accounts for passive investing. And thanks too for the link to Interactive Brokers Japan. Depending on NISA Provider, you could buy individual Stocks that qualify as non-PFIC in the Growth Portion of NISA....
by Tkydon
Sat May 04, 2024 1:53 pm
Forum: Taxes
Topic: Japan Tax Office wants me to file Japanese tax return first before filing U.S. tax return
Replies: 36
Views: 1410

Re: Japan Tax Office wants me to file Japanese tax return first before filing U.S. tax return

Deep Blue wrote: Sat May 04, 2024 1:42 pm And something similar for us Brits who couldn't care less about all the US stuff...
I agree.

And the Canadians, and the Australians, and don't forget the ...s...

https://www.mof.go.jp/english/policy/ta ... st_en.html
by Tkydon
Sat May 04, 2024 1:31 pm
Forum: Taxes
Topic: Japan Tax Office wants me to file Japanese tax return first before filing U.S. tax return
Replies: 36
Views: 1410

Re: Japan Tax Office wants me to file Japanese tax return first before filing U.S. tax return

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 (U...