U.S. Income Tax & Other Returns

Below is a list of information items we typically need to prepare a U.S. income tax or information return such as Form 5471, Form 3520, etc.

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• Yours, your spouse's (if filing jointly or separately) and your dependents' social security number, or ITIN (individual taxpayer identity number).

• If your marital status changed during the tax years for which returns are to be prepared, please provided details.

• If the number of your dependents changed, please provide details

• Japanese income tax return, or other foreign country income tax return - for each year a U.S. income tax return is to be prepared. The foreign income tax return is usually our main source of data for taxpayers resident outside the U.S.

• Prior year U.S. federal and State income tax returns (we would like to see the last U.S. income tax return you filed if available).

• Investment income statements such as Form 1099-INT/DIV/B, Form 1042-S, Form K-1, etc. or Japanese/foreign equivalent.

• Miscellaneous income statements, e.g. Form 1099-MISC/Japanese equivalent.

• Details of income and expenses for your foreign rental activity if any.

• Details of any government benefits you received, such as, social security benefits/pensions, unemployment pay.

• Your U.S. travel information during the tax year, noting the business days and any states you worked in.

• Details of any Gifts you received from a non-U.S. person including the date of gifting, a description and the fair market value of the gift.

• if you owned entirely or a share of a foreign corporation, we may need the annual financial statements to prepare Form 5471

• if you were a partner in a foreign partnership, we may need the partnerships annual financial statements to prepare Form 8865.

• If you expatriated, we will need details of your assets and certain values for the preparation of your Form 8854.