RetireJapan

If you add to your investments regularly it should smooth out some of the volatility. But holding a diversified index for the long term should deliver reasonable returns. Try not to check the price of your holdings much, it doesn't help and will only make you unhappy.

Does anybody know how Japanese tax authorities treat income to a Japanese beneficiary from a foreign (USA) retirement accounts? My wife (Japanese) and I (US citizen), no kids, now living abroad, have most of our money for retirement in a TIAA retirement account (taxation is deferred until when you ...

"Transfers of funds between persons who have a legal responsibility to support each other do not constitute a gift, unless the Gift is for a purpose other than support or living expenses, etc.." 'legal responsibility to support each' means 'dependent'. Whilst a student under about 25 migh...

So if you pay for your (adult) child’s rent it isn’t counted as a gift to them? If I remember correctly, former PM Hatoyama had a minor scandal where his mummy was giving him tens (hundreds?) of millions of yen a month to cover his living expenses. The scandal was that he might be using the money f...

For anyone actually worried about this, paying family living expenses directly (rent, utilities, groceries, travel, insurance, education expenses) while letting them save and invest their income seems pretty foolproof. Personally I'm planning to do that as well as regularly gifting up to a million y...

The following information was presented on reddit, and my confidence was eroded. 1. https://souzoku.asahi.com/article/13089869 2. https://www.oag-tax.co.jp/asset-campus-oag/name-deposit-3712 3. https://tomorrowstax.com/knowledge/202103176495/ 4. https://chester-tax.com/encyclopedia/8754.html All fo...

Tsumitate Wrestler wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:43 am Would be setting aside a buffer and trying to convince a then adult/child not to touch the money until X- date after Gigi/Baba passes.

Wouldn't that make it worse? The person receiving the gift not having control of it seems to be a red flag...

Can we all put our rings together and summon Captain Tax to break down both sides here and give a ruling? My impression is there is no ruling because at the end of the day it is going to depend on the NTA doing an inheritance tax audit and ruling against you. If both of those fail to happen there i...

This Reddit thread has a lot of detail and is very interesting: https://www.reddit.com/r/JapanFinance/c ... e_used_to/

The tax experts argue that it is not that simple, and proving if the gift was effective is not straightforward. The claims are: A. It is not uncommon for a J-NISA investor to have to pay tax upon maturity after the funds are released to them or after the gifting relative passess away, upon review b...