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- Fri May 17, 2024 7:41 am
- Forum: Taxes
- Topic: Tax Avoision (“…I say, ‘Avoision’”)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 440
Re: Tax Avoision (“…I say, ‘Avoision’”)
I’m Canadian (or simply not Japanese) living in Japan on a work visa (non PR) and I inherit a house, in Canada, from my now-deceased father. Japan insists that I report this on my Japanese taxes? The topic of inheritance, taxes due etc has been covered a number of times here. You have to check to s...
- Fri May 17, 2024 7:34 am
- Forum: Pension
- Topic: Sending voluntary NIC by cheque
- Replies: 7
- Views: 211
- Wed May 15, 2024 7:40 pm
- Forum: Stock market investing
- Topic: Need advice: take profits?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 514
Re: Need advice: take profits?
I had the exact same problem. With MUFJ. .. I am sounding like a broken record, but... Use banks to get your salary paid into. Use banks to set up direct debits for rent or mortgage payment or whatever. Use online brokers/securities firms for long-term investing. Do not use banks for this purpose.
- Tue May 14, 2024 2:02 am
- Forum: New NISA (2024~)
- Topic: Best broker for NISA?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 669
Re: Best broker for NISA?
I have a Monex account but never use that Vision tool. Set it up, looked at it briefly at first but then just ignored it.
The recommendations it offers are quite conservative. It is always telling me I am underweight in JP stocks and REITs, for example.
The recommendations it offers are quite conservative. It is always telling me I am underweight in JP stocks and REITs, for example.
- Tue May 14, 2024 1:44 am
- Forum: Stock market investing
- Topic: Need advice: take profits?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 514
Re: Need advice: take profits?
What bank/institution are your kids' regular accounts with? We made bank accounts for the kids specifically at MUFG in order to purchase the eMSAC easily, but it's not possible to purchase shares of that online... General advice is to use one of the large online brokers. They let adults set up acco...
- Mon May 13, 2024 8:19 pm
- Forum: RetireJapan for Dummies
- Topic: Which credit card for which NISA?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 172
Re: Which credit card for which NISA?
I would treat the CC card points as nice to have, but not spend too much time or adjust your setup too much considering they all seem to be bait and switch schemes. Sound advice from Adamu. Choose Rakuten or SBI or Monex for investment. Get the card if you can to "win" extra points to use...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:45 am
- Forum: Taxes
- Topic: Family loan (USD) repayment. Taxes?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 232
Re: Family loan (USD) repayment. Taxes?
If there was no official agreement and no interest, Japan may see this as a gift to you and apply gift tax.
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 2:30 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Yen falling like a stone
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1248
Re: Yen falling like a stone
It certainly screws up plans to travel overseas.
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:10 am
- Forum: Stock market investing
- Topic: Options for US citizens in Japan
- Replies: 32
- Views: 29278
Re: Options for US citizens in Japan
What is this Awful PFIC rule? I'm an American who just opened a new nisa account with SBI (took forever). I purchased a bunch of the UFJ eMaxis series, but just noticed this thread about Americans being required to file lenghty and complicated PFIC tax forms. Is this something an online tax service...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:17 am
- Forum: iDeCo
- Topic: iDeCo Robo Advisor Portfolio at MONEX...yay or nay?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1035
Re: iDeCo Robo Advisor Portfolio at MONEX...yay or nay?
Next year, I'll start drawing my pension, so I do need to reduce volatility of the portfolio as a whole. But according to Morningstar's Christine Benz, a balanced portfolio of 40:60 or 50:50 or 60:40 stocks and bonds are shown to support the highest safe withdrawal rate, so I'll definitely keep a b...