China News Service, August 20. According to Kyodo News on the 20th, the former chairman of Nissan Motor Company Carlos Ghosn illegally misappropriated the company’s funds. The Tokyo Internal Revenue Service pointed out that the company had a five-year period ending in the 2018 fiscal year. , The missing declaration is about 1 billion yen, and the additional tax amount is about 250 million yen. If the IRS previously pointed out the three-year period ending in the 2013 fiscal year, the under-reporting amount caused by Ghosn's misappropriation amounted to approximately 1.15 billion yen (approximately RMB 75.08 million) in eight years.
Data map: Carlos Ghosn, former chairman of Nissan Motor Company.
According to reports, a report submitted by Nissan to the Tokyo Stock Exchange in January 2020 showed that Ghosn received approximately 140 million yen in share price linkage compensation from Nissan improperly, and spent 4.4 million US dollars to use corporate jets for private purposes.
The Tokyo Internal Revenue Service did not consider the jet’s private use as expenses, and also judged that Ghosn’s rent in Tokyo and overseas residences was also embezzled. It is said that the IRS believes that the consulting fee Ghosn provided to his sister is an overhead business commission fee, and a recalculation tax has been levied.
Kyodo News Agency of Japan also learned in 2019 that the Tokyo Internal Revenue Service pointed out that Nissan had underreported about 150 million yen in the three years ending in the 2013 fiscal year. The Internal Revenue Service also investigated the part after the 2014 fiscal year.
It is reported that Ghosn was indicted for violating the "Financial Commodities Exchange Act" securities report false records and "Company Act" special malfeasance charges, during the bail in December 2019, illegally fled to Lebanon.
The report pointed out that the IRS believes that in addition to Ghosn’s misappropriation, the income of tax haven affiliates should also be included in Nissan’s income, pointing out that there was an underreporting of about 1.5 billion yen in the five years ending in fiscal year 2018. The additional tax is estimated to be approximately 400 million yen.