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Article: Seibu Railway provides 400 mil. yen to senior ultranationalist.
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- Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan)
- Article date:
- November 12, 2005
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Nov. 12--TOKYO -- Seibu Railway Co. provided 400 million yen to a 73-year-old former high-ranking member of an ultranationalist group in the six years to 2003 via a string of transactions involving land in Kanagawa Prefecture, sources familiar with the deal said Saturday.
The Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau, which probed the deals, concluded the money to be essentially a taxable "social expense" designed to curry favors with the ultranationalist, the sources said.
Based on the conclusion, the tax bureau, an arm of the National Tax Agency, ordered the railway operator to pay more than 100 million yen in back taxes, they said.
The bureau also ...