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I woke up early this morning to make lunch even though it's the end of the holidays... I'm sleepy. Dazed.

I'll go for a walk later

Now, today's article is the opposite pattern, and it's about "things I hid from my husband but now have to disclose".

What is the secret?

What I hid from my husband was the (details of) savings I had made when I was single. It's natural for both of us to have savings before we got married, and of course my husband has some, and I have some too.

But we didn't disclose the exact amounts to each other.

Mine was money I had saved up in just three years as an office worker, and after I'd paid for my car and wedding, it was a really small amount, but I used it little by little as pocket money.

Then, around the time of writing the diary "Things I couldn't say," I studied a little about investments, and thought, "Rather than chipping away at my savings, wouldn't it be better to buy stocks and use the dividends and benefits as pocket money?"

And so, I quickly (lol) opened an account with LINE Securities.

And I really did buy a small amount of stocks. I was so excited.

I kept this account opening and stock purchase a secret.

Why did I have to disclose it?

One day, I got an email from my husband, who was working in the US, saying,

I'm going to file a tax return in the US as a married joint, so I'd like you to disclose all of my assets????

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He said that.

I don't really understand tax returns, so I can only write briefly about them, but if your spouse has an extremely low income like mine, you can get a tax refund if you file a tax return-like thing for both spouses. Probably.

Even if your spouse doesn't live in the US. (Actually, I have a US social security number, so the process was easy.)

And that process required me to disclose all my assets outside the US.

No, you can't call mine assets.

I don't think the US authorities would look into the assets of such an ordinary person, but I have to go through the process properly...

...I reluctantly disclosed everything.

(Financial institution information and each of the highest annual balances. The highest annual balance... was a pain to look up. It must be even more difficult for people with a lot of money...)

It's true, it's not a big amount, so I wanted to keep it a secret.

It was a secret savings.

My husband didn't ask me, "What do you have with LINE Securities?" so maybe he's being considerate of my privacy (lol)

This troublesome tax My husband has been working there for three years, so it seems we have to pay two more tax returns.

I'm feeling a bit depressed...

Just when I had forgotten about it, a few months later, my husband emailed me again.

A person in charge at his company asked me,

"We received this check, but should we deposit it into your personal account or the company's account?"

And he asked me, "I don't recognize this check? Do you know?"

It was a check from the tax office, and confusingly, it was the address of the state where he lived and worked a dozen years ago.

(It's not where my husband lives now.)

I thought, "Something came after a dozen years?! Is it something personal?" (I received some pension-like payments from my husband at the time, so I thought it might be something like that again), but then I suddenly remembered the tax return and looked back at the documents, and the amount of the check and the amount of the refund application were exactly the same!!

Maybe it was just a coincidence that the tax office was in the same state as my old one?

When I told my husband that it was a tax refund, he said, "Oh, so it was good that it was addressed to the company," and was relieved.

(Apparently, the tax return is calculated into his salary, so the tax refund goes to the company. It was a shockingly large amount.)

By the way, my husband was not posted to the US branch, but he was the only Japanese person who went to a company that had acquired an American company (now there are two Japanese people).

So the person in charge had never dealt with a case like this, and didn't seem to understand.

My husband's stories about the US office are also interesting, as they are very different from Japan (like a visiting casino coming to the Christmas party), so maybe I'll write about them later? ? ?

(It's all like that (lol))

Thank you for reading until the end.