RetireJapan

Thanks for the information folks. I did think $5000 was a lot. I'll be sticking with FEIE for now. Just realized I said "take a $1000 loss" earlier, but if I'm able to withdraw everything from the IRA and then immediately put it into the same fund in the taxable brokerage, then there shoul...

US citizen, living in Tokyo since 2017 and been using FEIE every year. When I was home in the States last year, I started getting my finances in order, and opened a Roth IRA. I had estimated that my tax rate for the US and Japan would be about the same with the FTC, so I was planning to switch from ...