TSU, Mie Pref. (Kyodo) Faced with serious financial difficulties despite the nation's brighter economic outlook, rural municipal governments are forming organizations to recover unpaid local taxes and seizing assets when necessary.
Staffed with tax experts, these organizations are dealing with matters such as noncompliance with repeated requests for tax payments, massive amounts of unpaid taxes, and matters involving complicated rights and responsibilities.
The organizations are collecting taxes via legal means, including asset seizures, and returning them to municipal governments.