

Phantom Income: How the United States and Japan Treat the Tax You Owe on Money You Never Received
Tokyo Advisory Co., Ltd. — Cross-Border Tax Insights Few concepts catch internationally mobile individuals and business owners off guard as reliably as phantom income — taxable income that arises without any matching cash in your pocket. You owe tax, sometimes substantial tax, on a gain or an item of income you never actually received as money you can spend. For someone living under a single tax system, phantom income is already a planning headache. For someone exposed to bot














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