Bungeiza tax fraud

[Aaron Gerow]

Those of you who, like me, used to go to the Bungeiza a lot before it 
went bankrupt in 1997, might want to know that the papers reported that 
the former president of the Bungeiza was arrested for tax evasion.  When 
he sold the Bungeiza to a pachinko company, he, through some "tax 
consultants" associated with politicians, conspired to make it seem that 
he had to pay a large fee to another company for breaking a contract to 
sell the building to them.  He thus deducted those (fake) expenses from 
his taxes.

Ah, our dreams on the silver screen do get sullied....

Aaron Gerow
Associate Professor
International Student Center
Yokohama National University
79-1 Tokiwadai
Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501
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E-mail: gerow at ynu.ac.jp
Phone: 81-45-339-3170
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