The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office's Special Investigation Department is accused of evading over 100 million yen in corporate taxes by instructing another company how to record fictitious business outsourcing expenses. was arrested.
The person arrested was Hiroshi Shuto (43), the effective manager of a company in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo that provides sales consulting.
According to the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office's Special Investigation Department, Shuto conspired with the representative director of a machinery tool sales company in Minato Ward, Tokyo, to charge this company a total of 10,000 yen in corporate tax and consumption tax in the year ending March 2021. In addition to evading more than 100 million yen in taxes, he is also suspected of violating the Corporate Tax Law for fraudulently receiving approximately 6.8 million yen in consumption tax refunds.
The Special Investigation Department has not disclosed whether he has admitted to the charges.
According to people involved, Shuto hid approximately 300 million yen in income from a machine tool sales company by giving instructions on how to record fictitious outsourcing expenses, and was also teaching other companies how to do this. It means there is doubt.
The Special Investigation Department is expected to proceed with elucidating the flow of funds.