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Interesting read: https://www.gmo.com/asia/research-libra ... g-reality/

Do you know if deemed disposal tax (an irish tax of 41% levied on etfs every 8 years regardless of whether or not you sold the etf) applied to you if you buy these Irish domiciled etf? Caveat that I've never owned any of these ETFs, but according to these threads , it appears it doesn't as long as ...

[Edit Apr 30, 2021: If anyone is thinking of investing in foreign domiciled products that accumulate internally, it would be prudent to check how the Japanese tax office will treat notional distributions and any subsequent capital gains from them.] rhe has raised some great points in this thread. T...

For international, Vanguard offers Irish-domiciled accumulating ETFs. These are difficult to find by clicking through on the website, but show up if you search on google. For example, <https://global.vanguard.com/portal/site/loadPDF?country=fr&docId=31799> My strategy is to claim the 10% tax wi...

This doesn't answer your question but what prevents you from investing in NISA and then liquidating your assets when you're about to leave? If its NISA, its tax free anyways so you don't get dinged on the capital gains. You can then take that money and transfer it to wherever you are going and then...

Hello Everyone, Lots of really really useful info on here. Was hoping to get some advice as to the most simple/straight forward investing plan being a temporary worker in Japan with the potential to be leaving in 1 to 2 years. I have set up SBI and NISA, aswell as Interactive brokers, as the questio...

Faxingberlin_ wrote: ↑Sat May 22, 2021 7:22 am Is there a limit to how much you can remit with the SMBC 三井住友銀行 online method for the 800 JPY to IB. As in if I wanted to remit 5,000,000 JPY in one go could I do this in one remittance for 800 JPY?

To answer my own question, its 3,000,000 JPY per day and 5,000,000 JPY per month

Thank you all for sharing your experience here in such a detail. I only found this tread after having made my way through the JPY to IBKR transfer jungle. I am now aware of the following 3 good ways, which work independently and have been repeatedly tested! 1. Prestia (SMTB) swift JPY-> JPY transfe...

I've checked with an immigration attorney, who stated that it is fine to work as a contractor as long as the role is exactly the same as my previous role, which in my case it is.

I am on the Engineer/ Specialist in Humanities/ Intl' Services Visa