[HIGHLIGHTS] Prime Minister: “Kickbacks: Without knowing whether individual members received kickbacks, we are not encouraging them to pay taxes at this time.”

Prime Minister: “Kickbacks: Without knowing whether individual members received kickbacks, we are not encouraging them to pay taxes at this time”. Prime Minister Kishida also commented on his own political funding party, which was scheduled to be held last year but was postponed.

The act of a political organization receiving political funds from a faction does not fall under the category of profit-making business under the corporate tax law, and therefore does not result in taxation," he said. He added that he will scrutinize the contents of income and expenditure reports as necessary.