Tokyo prosecutor has charged Ufotable founder Hikaru Kondo with tax evasion over 129 million Yen (in America that is 1.28 million dollars by the way). This happened due to the private café that the anime has all over Tokyo profits going to Hikaru private safe and not put into taxes. About 30% according to the article.
I should say that Kondo lawyer has issued a statement apologizing to fans as well as innocent people caught up in this. The layer also says that Kondo filed the correct paper work. In it he paid the correct amount.
“The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper reported on Wednesday that the Tokyo Public Prosecutors Office has charged the anime studio ufotable and ufotable‘s founder, representative director, and president Hikaru Kondo with violating the Corporation Tax Act and Consumption Tax Act by failing to pay 139 million yen (about US$1.28 million) in taxes.
The Mainichi Shimbun cited a source close to the investigation to report that Kondo purportedly hid about 30% of the proceeds from some of ufotable‘s anime-themed restaurants in Tokyo and stored them in a private safe at home. The reduced revenue was then allegedly altered on the company’s ledger books for the years 2015, 2017, and 2018, concealing a total of 446 million yen (about US$4.11 million). The total owed amount in taxes is allegedly 110 million yen (US$1.01 million) in corporate tax, and 29 million yen (about US$267,000) in consumption tax. According to the newspaper’s source, ufotable and Kondo supposedly used the unpaid tax money to fund the company’s business.
A lawyer representing Kondo apologized to fans and the people involved on his behalf, and asserted that Kondo already filed a corrected tax return and paid the appropriate amount.”
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