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I have another question for anyone with experience with this. I am planning to go back to the tax office with a spreadsheet of dividends/capital gains that captainspoke recommended. But on the E-tax website, when people fill in each dividend online, there is a space listed 譲渡のための委託手数料, which I think...

Did the guy in the tax office indicate it was fine with you starting to declare this year, or did he suggest going back and re-doing taxes from past years? I am curious, as I know quite a few people who have done what you did, filing in the US because they know their holdings are reported to the IR...

Thanks a lot, I really appreciate you taking the time to help me out. Hoping I can do the same for someone else someday as I become more versed in this stuff. Thanks!

Thank you again for your help. I`ve started to make the Excel Spreadsheet that you've recommended with the dividend/capital gains date, mutual fund ticker symbol, amount in U.S. dollars, the TTM for that date, and the Japanese yen amount. I have to say, this experience is making me a little bitter. ...

Thanks very much for your reply captainspoke, I appreciate it. My wife and I are trying to find the right webpage to start logging in the dividend information, and we are now having a difficult time finding the correct one. We think the page that the man at the tax office showed us might not be the ...

Hi everyone, I’m fairly new to the forum and am learning a lot. But one thing I didn’t realize (stupidly) is that I needed to declare my U.S. mutual fund dividends/capital gains, etc. on my Japanese tax forms. I had always thought (again, stupidly) that since I declared them on my U.S. tax forms and...