A former chief of the Sapporo Regional National Tax Administration Bureau was indicted Wednesday on a charge of evading roughly 250 million yen in taxes by concealing about 730 million yen in income for four years to 2000.
According to the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office, Tsunekichi Hamada, 64, of Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, a tax accountant since retiring from the national tax administration bureau in 1996, evaded income taxes by underreporting his consulting fees and padding his expenses.
Hamada served as a tax consultant for about 200 companies, including the major entertainment agency Rising Productions Co., whose president and executives have been indicted for evading a little more than 1.1 billion yen in corporate taxes.
Hamada earned some 200 million yen a year, investigative sources alleged.