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Calculating tax on capital gains from a US mutual fund held for over a decade

I have several mutual funds that I've held for 10+ years in a US brokerage account. Until now, I've never sold any shares and have simply paid tax on dividends (four times a year) and capital gain redistributions (twice a year), all of which I have reinvested. This year I'm thinking of selling some shares. Am I correct in assuming that to calculate the Japanese tax, I would need to look up the exchange rate for every single investment I've ever made to each fund (the original purchase plus every reinvestment thereafter) and figure out all of the FX gains or losses over a span of 10+ years? Given that the reinvestments happened six times a year, this would be an insane amount of work to properly calculate everything. Is there any easier way to do this?

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u/ysmt4848 — 3 days ago

All the fun things you can buy for the price of a Steam Machine in Japan

Since I’ve seen several posts talking about the price of the Steam Machine in Japan, I thought I’d throw this out there. The price of the 2TB Steam Machine w/ controller in Japan is 264,980 yen.

Steam Machine 2TB w/ controller: 264,980 yen

https://komodostation.com/?lang=en

For the same amount of money, you can buy a Switch 2, a PS5 Digital Edition, an Xbox Series X Digital Edition, preorder the NEOGEO AES+ Anniversary Edition, preorder GTA 6 Ultimate Edition, and still have enough money left over for 8 Strong Zeros. And yet it still sold out in under a day.

Switch 2: 59,980 yen (was 49,980 yen until a month ago, but got a price increase)

https://www.yodobashi.com/product/100000001009063421/

PS5 Digital Edition: 53,800 yen

https://www.yodobashi.com/product/100000001009510756/

Xbox Series X Digital Edition: 87,650 yen (MSRP is 79,980 yen, but it’s currently sold out at that price everywhere)

https://item.rakuten.co.jp/digimart-shop/xbox06/?ultra_crid=xbox06&scid=s_kwa_pla_unpaid_568386

NEOGEO AES+ Anniversary Edition: 49,800 yen

https://www.yodobashi.com/product/100000001009835213/

GTA 6 Ultimate Edition: 12,280 yen

https://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/2119816.html

8 Strong Zeros: 1,440 yen (180 yen x 8)

https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B001TZ8SNQ/

Total: 264,950 yen

Converted to USD at today’s rate, the Steam Machine comes out to around $1,640, which might not sound too insane. But keep in mind that over the past 5 years, the yen has gone from around 100 to the dollar to 160 to the dollar, while salaries have largely remained the same. So to someone living and working in Japan, 265,000 yen feels like $2,650. This is why Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, and even Plaion have all eaten some of the exchange-rate hit to keep their hardware from completely flopping in Japan. Yet, all of those are still in stock, while the Steam Machine is sold out. So maybe Valve does know what they’re doing after all?

u/ysmt4848 — 2 months ago