If you work in Japan you have to report your foreign earnings (money you make in Japan) to the IRS. The big question to ask is do you make more or less than the foreign earned income exclusion? Last time I filed it was something like $80,000/yr. So if your salary is less than that, you can file and you shouldn't have to pay any extra taxes to the USA. Look into it...QUICKLY, because the filing deadline is just around the corner.

But its pretty much your decision. Your company is Japanese, right? So they didn't send the info to the IRS. The only proof of salary are your salary slips, and they are probably in Japanese and nobody from IRS would accept them since they aren't W2's or 1099's.

If you can put your income down, I think its better because having a bunch of zeros on your tax form might make the IRS suspicious.

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Hello fellow citizens,

I have a couple tax questions for ya. I was just about to file my 2007 taxes(I worked in the states for about half a year, moved to Kyoto in July, then started working for a small Japanese company), when after I did a little research, I realized that I may have to report my foreign earnings as well.

So I was thinking, 1)I already paid my taxes on the money I earned here to the Japanese gov't, and the money I made has nothing to do with the U.S. Why should I have to report these earnings?
2)If I do report, how is the U.S. aware of how much money I make here? I doubt very much my company furnished that info to the IRS.
3)If the IRS indeed dosn't have that info, is my healthy conscience the only enforcement I have to report my foreign earnings?
4)What do you folks who work in Japan do?

I appreciate any helpful reply anyone has to offer.
以上、よろしくお願い致します。