Former President of ZOZO Mr. Maesawa Chiba Donated hometown tax of 2 billion yen to Tateyama City

Former President of ZOZO Mr. Maesawa Chiba Hometown tax payment of 2 billion yen in Tateyama City December 25 14:14

It was revealed that the founder and former president of ZOZO, one of the largest fashion mail order websites in Japan, donated 2 billion yen to Tateyama City, Chiba Prefecture, as a hometown tax payment.

This was announced by Tateyama City, Chiba Prefecture, which received the donation on the 25th.

According to this, on April 24, a company from which Mr. Maesawa was the new president contacted him and said that Mr. Maesawa donated 2 billion yen to use Tateyama City's "Business on Tourism Promotion".

Mr. Maezawa is from Chiba Prefecture. In September, he visited municipalities, including Tateyama City, which was damaged by Typhoon No. 15 and three towns and towns around the country, each of which cost ¥ 10 million to recover and recover from the typhoon disaster. Donated 10,000 yen.

Last year's hometown tax payment in Tateyama City was about 240 million yen, which is 8.3 times that of Maezawa's hometown tax payment of 2 billion yen.

Tateyama City offers homemade ham and shark fins as home return items for tax payment, but Mr. Maezawa refused to receive return items.

Mr. Maesawa commented, "I feel that Tateyama City has abundant local resources and has high potential. I would like to use the hometown tax payment to support local revitalization."

In addition, Mayor Kenichi Kanamaru of Tateyama City is grateful for "Thank you very much for future regional promotion. I want to consider effective utilization in the future."