I’m a US citizen working in Japan. A few years ago, while I was working as a 個人業務委託, I started investing in US-domicile etfs (VTI and VXUS) through schwab. I’ve always declared the dividends from this account on my 確定申告, along with any interest I got from my american bank account. I also keep a spreadsheet of the amounts, dates, and exchange rates for my records.
This year (this month, actually), I was hired by the company I was doing freelance for, and am now doing my first 年末調整 with etf dividends. I actually called the phone support line for the tax office to see if I needed to include my dividends and interest in my 年末調整’s 給与所得以外の所得 section. For the interest, they said no, but the dividends they said that if I was putting them on my 確定申告 next year, I needed to add them.
So this has me confused. I have always thought that I was required to put my dividends and interest on my 確定申告 since they are in a foreign brokerage/bank account, but is this not the case? Have I locked myself into extra work by declaring them last year? Fwiw, my dividends are gonna be a few hundred USD and the interest is from a savings account so like… 10 usd lol.
by BrokenHeartsR4Aholes