The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper reported on Wednesday that the Tokyo Public Prosecutors Office has charged the anime studio ufotable and ufotable’s founder, representative director, and president Hikaru Kondo with violating the Corporation Tax Act and Consumption Tax Act by failing to pay 139 million yen (about US$1.28 million) in taxes.
The total owed amount in taxes is allegedly 110 million yen (US$1.01 million) in corporate tax, and 29 million yen (about US$267,000) in consumption tax.
The studio has also made anime adaptations of Type-Moon’s The Garden of Sinners, and the Katsugeki: Touken Ranbu television anime.
According to the newspaper’s source, ufotable and Kondo supposedly used the unpaid tax money to fund the company’s business.