Rick Gundlach, Esq. CPA

@hoofin.bsky.social

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I am the US CPA who does US tax returns for Americans in Japan, based in Narita when I am not in Pennsylvania. A money progressive, I am also disappointed how things are now. Want to build Bluesky? Stop posting over there!

His Holiness, the Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, in green vestments.
Mount Fuji as it appears silhouetted, about one hundred miles away from Narita in Chiba Prefecture at sunset.
Screenshot of the well-regarded "The Tax Adviser" publication, reporting that America's IRS workforce is down 25% this year.
A representative bag of Wawa coffee, brought with me to Japan from Pennsylvania. They "do it just a little bit better at Wawa" was the late 20th century jingle when I was in college and law school in Philadelphia.
GPTZero result for a sample of a fraudulent CPE website. Probably human-authored with an AI cleanup.
Shot of NHK Plus reporting on this afternoon’s tsunamis in Japan and warning people to get away from the sea and find higher ground.
A tiger with blue eyes.
Bob Jennings, to the left, lecturing on various aspects of the United States tax code, as he did for several hours this morning and afternoon in the Ala Moana / Waikiki neighborhood of Honolulu, Hawai'i today.
A street scene heading in the direction of Ala Moana in Honolulu. Nice palm trees and sunny skies.
Picture of Tennessee Senator Rand Paul (I think), walking, in a screenshot of the New York Times reporting that the Republicans are a bunch of hypocrites when it comes to the US federal debt.
A picture of an All Nippon Airways (ANA) aircraft decorated as a sea turtle. The top of an alternative version is in the forefront. Hawai'i's famous Diamond Head is in the background.
Picture of Tokyo from an airplane, with red circles superimposed to identify the Imperial Palace and the Tokyo SkyTree. It's all kind of dark even if you don't have issues with eyes. The blue rectangle to the right is obviously the entertainment monitor inside the airplane, reflecting on the window. Looks like ANA, but I'm not sure.
A blooming hydrangea against a purple sunset.
Hydrangeas being overrun by kudzu in Narita along a main boulevard.
A car in Narita Japan that sat idling for two-and-a-half hours starting around 4:30 am on June 1, 2025.
Chart of the Starts Corporation stock price as it traded in Japan during the 21st century.
Satellite picture of Wellstone Hills Omotesando, provided by Google Earth.
Picture of a Shazam (song identification) app result of music being broadcast out the unit of an adjacent apartment in a reinforced concrete building in Japan, where the inconsiderate tenant or subtenant refuses to abide by the terms of the lease and keep her music in her own unit.
Screenshot of the Yahoo weather forecast for Intercourse, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Photo of an early 21st century Japanese Landing Permission stamp, from May 21, 2005.
Picture of me and Teruo Kurosaki, my sempai tomodachi in Tokyo Japan.
A picture showing a gray van appearing at Wellstone Hills Omotesando in Narita Japan's Kamicho neighborhood, in a parking lot meant for, you know, actual tenants.
Screenshot of visits to the blog, "Hoofin", on May 15, showing a few thousand pages being accessed, probably by computer bot.
Young people in Narita Japan who enter and leave studio apartments meant by contract (and I think local health and public safety regulations) for ONE occupant.
This is me mailing a letter in Japan in one of the really cool old-style local post boxes. That's the big red thing there with the Japan Post logo.
The Lincoln Cent as minted in 2013 in San Francisco, from Wikipedia.
Front page of the University of Pennsylvania's "The Daily Pennsylvanian" newspaper of October 17, 1994, reporting on the drug bust at landlord (slum lord?) Brian Barrabee's Penn Manor Apartments at 4045 Baltimore Avenue.
Details of simple model of a "one minus the tax rate" markup. If you can't read this outright, the alt text won't help.
Screenshot of IRS topic of income reporting by religious workers.
The description is in the post.
Screenshot of Narita Japan city hall report of the number of foreigners, male and female, in the Kamicho neighborhood as of March 31, 2025.
Screenshot of Narita City's population count of foreigners, published by city hall on the town website. As of March 31, 2025, the total is now over 10,335. But in Kamicho, a small district, the number remains 42. It hardly moves, even though a main apartment building has foreigners come and go all the time.
Front cover of the October 27, 1994 University of Pennsylvania's campus newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian, showing the headline of a major drug bust at 4045 Baltimore Avenue in Philadelphia, two blocks off the Penn campus.
Shazam app in a separate apartment recognizing Gracie Abrams' "us" being blasted outside the balcony window of neighbor's apartment.
Crescent moon and Jupiter above the Narita fire station tower.
Crescent moon in Narita Japan.
Picture of an orange and lavender sunset.
Text about why LeoPalace caters to companies that don't want to provide dormitories to their employees in Japan.
iPhone moon screenshot showing April 28 in Japan as a new moon.
Rice field in early stage of plantings in Narita Japan.
Picture of Yamaguchi neighborhood in Narita New Town showing green foliage and rice fields.
Shazam result for the song "us." featuring Taylor Swift.
Shazam result is a picture of "Hold Me Back" by Heize.