TOKYO (TR) – 9 corporations in a gaggle that runs host golf equipment and about 30 hosts have been accused by the Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau of concealing a complete of about 2 billion yen in revenue, stories the Yomiuiri Shimbun (Oct. 31).
Host golf equipment have been topic to some unscrupulous enterprise practices, akin to forcing feminine clients into giant quantities of debt. This case brings to gentle new instances of unfair tax evasion.
Because of the declare, the 9 corporations are anticipated to pay a complete of about 200 million yen in company tax, together with a heavy surcharge, and the hosts are anticipated to pay a complete of a number of hundred million yen in revenue tax.
Sources say that the tax investigation was carried out on FG Group, situated in Shinjuku Ward. Additionally focused was the group’s eight host club-management corporations beneath its umbrella and about 30 hosts working on the group’s golf equipment.
The eight corporations that function the golf equipment recorded a complete of about 300 million yen as “know-how utilization charges” to a company within the Federated States of Micronesia. The company was represented by the male founding father of FG Group, however the funds weren’t truly made, with the group discovered to have said inflated bills and decreased revenue.
FG Group was additionally discovered to have hid about 300 million yen in revenue by recording fictitious outsourcing bills and different means.
A lot of the roughly 30 hosts didn’t file tax returns. As properly, there have been confirmed instances whereby information of compensation issued by the golf equipment have been destroyed, leading to concealment of a complete of a number of hundred million yen in revenue.
Mixed with the entire of about 600 million yen for the 9 corporations, the entire quantity of hid revenue is considered about 2 billion yen. FG Group’s lawyer stated in an interview, “We had no intention of concealing revenue, however in the end adopted the Nationwide Tax Company’s directions. We’ll present applicable steering to the hosts sooner or later.”
