Hello, I was unemployed before leaving for Japan and have not filed taxes since 2020. I have been in Japan since November 2021 and I know that I needed to wait until 330 days living in Japan to file my taxes, making it around October 2022. I failed to file any taxes since arriving, however. Does anyone have any advice as to what forms I should file? Should I just file Form 1040, Schedule I, Schedule B, and Form 2555 for my 2022 tax year? Any advice is appreciated and sorry for the trouble.
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r/japanfinance might also be a good source of information if this isn’t cross-posted yet. Just commenting so you can get some additional visibility.
I recommend looking at the Kumamoto AJET’s unofficial tax guide; they help lay out step by step what to do, for the last couple years. If you google it, it should come right up
Edit: sorry, I just assumed you were American. The Kumamoto guide is for American taxes
>I know that I needed to wait until 330 days living in Japan to file my taxes,
What? Why?
I would think it would more so be that if you were unemployed in the US and then only worked from November 2021, that you probably didn’t earn enough income to be required to file in the US for 2021 (where it would fall under FEIE levels even adjusted for how much of the year you were in Japan).
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Assuming you don’t have other sources of income and are doing FEIE, then yes:
Form 1040
Schedule 1 (not “i”)
Form 2555
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add:
Schedule B if you have interest earning accounts / dividends
As a JET, you don’t have to do anything for your Japanese taxes. It’s all handled by your employer and your taxes are taken out of your paycheck each month.
Or are you talking about taxes in your home country? In which case it might be useful to mention which country you are talking about.