RetireJapan

Okay, thanks--I guess I'll start looking beginning with as much of the links that come thru.

... Best reference is here - Page 8 (page 12 of the PDF) Calculating the Public Pension Plan Deduction (Calculation Table) https://www.tax.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/book/ ... k2023e.pdf Also here - Bottom of Page 22 https://www.nta.go.jp/taxes/shiraberu/s ... df/050.pdf So, You get your Base Deduction of Y...

... (1) No, Japan has primary call, and taxes paid in the US on US Sourced income can be claimed as a Foreign Tax Credit against tax on the same income in Japan. (2) Japan has primary call, and taxes paid in Japan on Japan Sourced income can be claimed as a Foreign Tax Credit against tax on the sam...

Tho things may have changed, I've read that Wise is good for small transfers, up to maybe ¥6-700,000. For a larger amount (over ¥1m) you'd need to do multiple transfers (=less cost effective as the overall amount gets larger). https://www.reddit.com/r/JapanFinance/wiki/index/handling/transfers I wou...

If you're US, don't buy mutual funds here--all are PFICs according to US rules, and a humongous tax, and tax prep, headache.

If you're not US, then ignore that.

For public uni, I think tuition was ¥480,000/semester (same for 国立 and 県立). Then you consider living expenses. Of course living at home/local would be cheapest, going away to big and bigger cities will cost more. Things like how often the student would then return home from there, are they M/F and w...

Of course you can file your US return first, if you do it early enough so that you can then file your return here before March 15th.

For context, this is your earlier post:

https://www.retirejapan.com/forum/viewt ... 148#p28148

Isn't my decision to hold an action, too?

Maybe it's the shareholders who are not selling that have more impact on price/price movement.


(a version of what Deep Blue said about passive/dumb money)

Well, the filing deadline here is a month earlier than in the US (March 15th here, vs April 15th there), so that's the natural order of things--the deadline here comes first, so you file here first. Also, there are no extensions here (tho you can file an amended return later). And the tax code is si...

That's just a press release.

What's the fund's expense ratio, any front/back load, where's the list of their holdings--total number, weight in top 20/50, sector breakdown, cap weightings..., what's the turnover, how old is the fund, etc.