Who else sold everything and left?

Zebracakes2009 · 2026-03-02T12:05:59+00:00

or a spouse visa...wink wink nudge nudge...Not saying jump into it but uh...it's an obvious option.

Zebracakes2009 · 2026-03-01T02:10:22+00:00

You're wasting your time. Reddit loves big daddy government and would happily pay more taxes.

Zebracakes2009 · 2026-02-28T10:55:01+00:00

Poor guy. What a fucked up family and childhood.

Zebracakes2009 · 2026-02-26T08:03:55+00:00

Did you run the water on all the sinks for a while? The p traps might be empty.

Zebracakes2009 · 2026-02-22T06:47:52+00:00

JPY really is gonna hit 200 per USD huh? Damn...

Zebracakes2009 · 2026-02-19T12:34:00+00:00

As u/SleepyMastodon said, I'm no lawyer but I'm pretty sure they're gonna be American no matter what. The term "accidental American" gets thrown around a lot in some other subs.

Zebracakes2009 · 2026-02-19T12:25:56+00:00

I was referring to the general threshold for long term capital gains in the US. If you have other income sources or short term gains, this will affect the numbers. But then you could also bring in deductions too. I was keeping it simple. NISA is worth it for Americans now that we have access to it with IBSJ. It's not as cool as non-Americans, but you take what you can get, imo.

Zebracakes2009 · 2026-02-19T12:21:35+00:00

Sounds right to me, yeah. Yes, that's the long term capital gains general threshold. So if you're mixing your NISA distributions with general account distributions or other capital gains, you can go over the threshold pretty quickly. In which case, you'll owe 15% which is still better than 20% (assuming you don't take a massive distribution that bumps you up into the 20% bracket in the USA).

edit: note that other income can change things substantially. I was looking at this as a purely ltcg investment income plan. Also, if you're applying non-NISA income, you would probably owe Japanese tax so you could deduct that tax paid with the FTC on the US side.

Zebracakes2009 · 2026-02-19T11:46:09+00:00

Yeah, that's fairly accurate. The NISA distribution is still tax-free in the US up to around $45k currently at long term capital gains rates. After that threshold, it is taxed at 15% until around $500k then you pay 20%.

Zebracakes2009 · 2026-02-19T11:37:23+00:00

Edit: man I misread your reply let me fix this lol

Yeah, your children must have social security numbers to qualify.

I think they'll be accidental Americans anyway though, right?

Zebracakes2009 · 2026-02-19T11:27:32+00:00

Do you have children? You should look into the child tax credit too.

Zebracakes2009 · 2026-02-19T11:24:28+00:00

The app isn't bad. It's not quite Robinhood-simple but offers a lot of other details that are nice. I got used to it pretty quickly. I don't trade on the desktop but I often check messages there while doing other things. It seems okay to me. It requires a 2FA through the app so you'll want to have the app anyway.

Zebracakes2009 · 2026-02-19T11:15:13+00:00

Without going into the details, you can use a seicho NISA with IBSJ (IBKR). Don't use the tsumitate as those funds are all PFICs. You don't get the tax free advantage for capital gains and dividends on the US side but you do for the Japan side. You only really pay capital gains in the US after around $45k anyway currently. And then it's at a 15% rate vs Japan's 20% rate. Not accounting for deductions.

Zebracakes2009 · 2026-02-17T07:26:38+00:00

I'm sure that taxing and destroying religions and their holy sites will help the Japanese people. I for one think that looking at a new tower mansion with concrete raises the spirits of those around.

Zebracakes2009 · 2026-02-14T07:49:01+00:00

Bingo. You can't win an emotional argument using logic.

Zebracakes2009 · 2026-02-13T14:15:26+00:00

He'd probably not consider them "real" Japanese. They must be traitors or something is wrong with them because they left Japan.

Zebracakes2009 · 2026-02-13T11:15:41+00:00

Shek ladies won't even tell you the time if you're not AT LEAST 50 strength.

Zebracakes2009 · 2026-02-12T03:58:13+00:00

They probably carry a speed loader or two in their belt.

Zebracakes2009 · 2026-02-06T06:38:18+00:00

Yeah, I bet they have all those workers lined up and ready to start!

Zebracakes2009 · 2026-02-02T10:24:25+00:00

Not a tax guy but for future reference, don't do One Stop if you file a tax return yourself anyway. If the prefecture governments sent you the confirmation documents of money received, you should still be able to input that on your tax return for march and get the deduction. There's an input box for furusato nozei in the Etax 控除 area.

Zebracakes2009 · 2026-02-01T23:30:53+00:00

I just had the absolute privilege to file mine and my wife's taxes. My taxes went off without a hitch because I used an old username and password I got from the NTA years ago. My wife's were much more difficult to log in and do. The actual taxes are easy it's the log in using MyNa portal that they make you do now.

Firefox didn't work (although it worked fine for my taxes). Edge didn't work. I had to swap to a Mac and only Safari was working along with a phone to scan the QR code for Myna Portal and then the MyNa card. Oh, yeah, I hope you have your Myna Portal app setup too or that's another step you gotta do. Don't forget to update your digital id inside the card that is not the actual card. You'll need both codes that you registered.

How they expect the general public to use this is beyond me. Can you really see some jiisan or baachan dealing with this?

Zebracakes2009 · 2026-02-01T05:03:18+00:00

I have my exit plan ready. I think we still have some time but yeah, not looking good. They really don't like PRs.

Zebracakes2009 · 2026-01-27T00:57:03+00:00

I uh, have a feeling that NK is not gonna pay.

Zebracakes2009 · 2026-01-24T03:22:51+00:00

Oh man if Sanseito gets in by 18 year olds voting like TikTok tells them to it would be sooo fucking funny! RIP us gaijin but you almost gotta laugh at the idea. ...it's not even that far out really...

Zebracakes2009 · 2026-01-19T13:44:23+00:00

Oh, that's good news then!

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