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Object lesson?

The court should reject the suit because individuals cannot claim compensation from another country through a domestic court.

Critics say the current flat tax rate of 20 percent is beneficial to wealthy people

Since when is a tax beneficial to the taxed?

@Hideomi Kuze

What source do you have for this statement:

But their "treated water" still contains 12 kinds of radioactivity such as Strontium90, Ruthenium106, Iodine129, Cesium135 beyond safety standard value

What happens when you flight back is later than planned and the arrival date is different from the one on your application?

@SJ

As the government should not meddle in decisions of courts the courts should not ignore agreements between governments (the 1965 Treaty).

And how can a court of SK today apply the present laws of SK on an issue that took place at a time and location when there was no Korea and no Korean laws. It all took place in Japan and Japan's laws of that time would need to be applied by a Japanese court.

@tamanegi:

You may look up the numbers here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

@aomorisamurai: A "dispatch" refers to 派遣/Haken staff which is someone employed by company A and sent from company A to work at company B. Company B pays Company A for the dispatched person and company A pays a salary to their employee.

It is possible for a lab holding a virus that matches 96% the corona virus simply because similar viruses exist in bats and other animals and may be kept by a lab. The SARS virus is one known virus similar to the corona virus. From a lab holding such a virus one cannot conclude that the corona virus originated from that lab.

I assume the fund retains the profits. So ultimately they are for the benefit of pensioners.

490 mio. Yen divided by 30000 employees is only 16333 Yen per employee. Over a span of 18 years makes 907 Yen per year per employee on average. Did any of these 30000 employees within these 30 years ever notice? Maybe not if the difference is so minimal.

@OreiO: If foreign withholding tax cannot be fully deducted in the current year the remaining amount can be carried forward to the next year. Anyhow, foreign withholding tax is tax on foreign derived income that is not yet declared and taxed in Japan. So this is not a case of double taxation.

@garypen: There is no tax on assets abroad declared (if above 50 mio JPY). If you are residing in Japan the income derived from these assets is taxable though.

@OreiO: For a resident there should be no need to pay income tax outside of Japan in the first place. Tax withheld at source can be deducted from income taxes payable in Japan.

There is an exchange of information between OECD countries. Country A will report to country B if accountholder lives in country B. If this information shows income in country A which is undeclared in country B the account holder has a problem. The new proposed regulation is meant to have documentation at hand that facilitates the calculation of taxes for past undeclared income.

The moment Nissan declared to have found in their internal investigation that payments made were for private use of Mr. Ghosn they inadvertently invited the tax office. Such payments are not deductible from income and therefore taxes are due. Whether Nissan's findings are correct is not the tax office's concern. If Nissan states as it did taxes need to be paid.

FT reports that "Nissan begins search for new chief executive":

https://www.ft.com/content/f42e3d50-d160-11e9-8367-807ebd53ab77

Nice necktie Mr. Kono is wearing.

@JJ Jetplane

and now Korea has much better work life balance than those here in Japan.

Sure, with a 52 or 56 hours work week. Great place for workers to be.

Two of the three A380s Skymark had ordered but bankruptcy prevented the deal from happening. ANA then took over the order presumably at a heavy discount.

What is better about Boeing?

How can they cancel his apartment lease contract while he is still on the board of Nissan? Does that not contravene agreements between Ghosn and Nissan?

The gold seller will only accept cash because he delivers physically on the spot. A remittance might never arrive and the gold be gone. The buyer in this case had better arranged for the transfer to take place in the bank where the cash is paid out to him.

The property is Nissan's but that does not make the content Nissan's property. The lessee's property is and remains his and can be taken out of the apartment after cancellation of the rent contract.

Nissan doesn't want to be owned by Renault anymore? Fine, Renault can sell

its 43% to another car company. A Chinese one, for example.

If karma is coming his way then also the karma for having saved employment for tens of thousands of workers and employees. More than were laid off.

The use of the company leased jet for private purposes does not need to be illegal but the cost incurred and carried by Nissan can be regarded as Mr. Ghosn's income and taxable as such. From Nissan's side it can be regarded as a gift to Mr. Ghosn and as such not as tax reducing costs. Both sides' tax declarations would need to be amended.

Nissan line workers are not poorly paid I think. Maybe they are thankful for Nissan still employing them?

Who became the new chairman of the board of directors?

The board meeting today can remove him from the chairmanship but not from the board. For that to happen a shareholders meeting is necessary.