Services
Five situations account for almost every enquiry this office receives. Each is priced with a fixed written quote before any work begins.
Unfiled U.S. returns
Years of missed returns and FBARs, resolved through the Streamlined Foreign Offshore Procedures.
Annual filing
Your U.S. return alone, or your U.S. and Japanese returns prepared together under one engagement.
Investors
NISA, iDeCo and Japanese mutual funds, and the PFIC reporting that follows from them.
Self-employed
Schedule C, self-employment tax, the totalization agreement, and the Japanese blue return.
Estate and gift
Gifts and inheritances from Japanese family, Form 3520, QDOT and the 1954 treaty.
This site provides general information, not tax advice. Fees include Japanese consumption tax. Results depend on individual facts.
Aube — Japanese tax accountant (税理士) and U.S. Certified Public Accountant, Washington State (active). Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan. Opening November 2026 — consultations available now.