Japan's flamboyant 'Prince of Green Juice' arrested for alleged tax evasion
A flamboyant entrepreneur known as the "Prince of Green Juice" was arrested for alleged tax evasion on Tuesday. Tokyo prosecutors raided beauty and diet product company Media Hearts Co., which President Yuta Misaki set up in 2007, over the evasion of about ¥180 million in ...
Osaka takoyaki seller found guilty for evading ¥130 million in taxes
The operator of a snack stand serving takoyaki (octopus dumplings) near Osaka Castle was found guilty Wednesday of evading about ¥130 million in income tax. The Osaka District Court sentenced Tatsuko Utsunomiya, 72, to a year in prison, suspended for three years, and handed down ...
New York City will seek any taxes that President Donald Trump should have paid for money he received from his late father, Mayor Bill de Blasio said, following a New York Times report on the transactions. "It's clear to me that there are real ramifications ...
Trump got $413 million from dad via tax dodges, including fraud: NYT
The New York Times reported Tuesday that President Donald Trump received at least $413 million from his father over the decades, much of that through dubious tax dodges, including outright fraud. The 15,000-word Times report contradicts Trump's portrayal of himself as a self-made billionaire who ...
Former 'fixer' Michael Cohen pleads guilty to campaign-finance violations, implicates Trump
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer, pleaded guilty Tuesday to campaign-finance violations and other charges, saying Trump directed him to arrange the payment of hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels and a former Playboy model to influence the election. Cohen's ...
Last defendant in Japan's biggest gold-smuggling case evades prison but gets ¥1.5 million fine
The Saga District Court sentences the last of nine men charged with smuggling 206 kg of gold into Japan in May, wrapping up the nation’s largest gold seizure to date.
Japanese individuals, firms named in Panama Papers owe ¥1 billion in taxes on hidden income
Calculation is first by Japanese authorities of amount owed on undeclared income exposed in leaked documents.
French ex-minister who fought tax evasion jailed for tax fraud
A former minister who led a French government crackdown on tax evasion was sentenced to three years in jail on Thursday for hiding an offshore bank account of his own, in a scandal that deeply embarrassed President Francois Hollande. A Paris court found Jerome Cahuzac, ...
OECD tax-dodging confab concludes with agreement to draft blacklist criteria
In effort to crack down on corporations and individuals that evade taxes overseas, representatives from 82 countries agreed to draft criteria that could be used to put non-cooperative nations and jurisdictions on an international blacklist. The two-day meeting, which concluded in Kyoto Friday, was held ...
A trove of documents from a Panamanian law firm is rattling politics around the world.
Cameron may be clean, but that isn't the point
Revelations that British Prime Minister David Cameron benefited from shares in a Panama-based fund have undermined the honest-broker image he was seeking ahead of the "Brexit" referendum.
In wake of 'Panama Papers' scandal, British leader Cameron releases tax summary
Prime Minister David Cameron released his tax details Sunday in a bid to defuse a row over his father's offshore business, but faced further questions over money he received from his mother. Cameron took the unprecedented step of publishing a summary of six years of ...
