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Why does Japan's foreign tax credit help with double taxation without acting like a blank pass for every tax you happened to pay overseas?
Residents in Japan often hear that foreign tax can simply be credited and conclude the double-tax problem must solve itself. Please explain why the credit is more conditional than that, why category and calculation matter, and why paying foreign tax does not automatically mean Japan will offset every yen of it.
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