<figure id="attachment_364256" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-364256" style="width: 1099px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="e34fb499"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/03/f97e1ad36f22659778a802620cfb67f1.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-364256" class="wp-caption-text">Kishida Cabinet&#8217;s approval rating plummets due to the back taxes issue. It was time for people to file their tax returns. &#8230;&#8230;</figcaption></figure>
 March 15 was the last day for people to file their tax returns.
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 At the Budget Committee meeting on that day, Prime Minister Kishida said
 We must continue to ask for the understanding and cooperation of the public in order to maintain our society. I would like to ask you to consider the meaning of tax payment and sincerely ask for your cooperation.
 He added, &#8220;Naturally, paying taxes is a duty of the people.
 Naturally, tax payment is a duty of the people, and if the people do not pay their taxes, the nation will not be able to function.
 However, Diet members, who represent the people, are burdened with huge unaccounted-for sums of money, yet they continue to &#8220;refuse to pay taxes,&#8221; pretending to be unaware of the situation.
 Former LDP Secretary General Hiroshige Seko failed to report on his political fund balance sheet even though he and his party received 15.42 million yen in kickbacks from an Abe faction political fund party.
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 &#8220;I used all of the money for political activities.
 &#8220;I have no intention of paying taxes.
 &#8220;I have no intention of paying taxes.
 He claimed that he &#8220;used all the money for political activities&#8221; and that he had &#8220;no intention of paying taxes.
 After the questioning, The Japan Innovation Party member Hayao Ondokita, who had pursued the matter, said, &#8220;In Mr. Seko&#8217;s case, it is not possible to pay taxes on his political activities,
 In Mr. Seko&#8217;s case, it is outrageous that he has no intention of paying taxes by declaring that all of the funds were used for political activities, even though there is still an item in the correction of political funds that says the funds are unknown,&#8221; he said.
 The councilman&#8217;s anger was palpable as he stated, &#8220;He is making too much fun of the people.
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Not only Mr. Seko, but also Tadashi Shioya, a member of the Abe faction in the House of Representatives, said
 Mr. Seko, as well as Mr. Tadashi Shioya, a member of the House of Representatives from the same Abe faction, stated that &#8220;I myself use the money for political activities and do not intend to pay taxes.
 LDP General Affairs Chairman Yutaka Moriyama also stated
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 Mr. Yutaka Moriyama, Chairman of the General Affairs Committee of the Liberal Democratic Party, also stated, &#8220;There are people who say all kinds of things, but since everyone handles it as political funds, there is no income tax to be paid. (Tax payment) is impossible.
 He clearly insisted, &#8220;I&#8217;m sure they will be thoroughly backtracking.
 I&#8217;m sure they are thoroughly lining their pockets. If one of them were to betray and pay taxes, it would cause havoc.
 How contradictory it is to say that &#8220;all the money was used for political activities,&#8221; while at the same time saying that it is unclear what the money was used for. It is hard to believe that he is making fun of the people.
 In January 2010, when the Liberal Democratic Party was in the midst of a recession and the issue of &#8220;politics and money&#8221; arose with Ichiro Ozawa, then secretary general of the Democratic Party of Japan, Seko wrote on Twitter at the time
 My office has kept a proper accounting of every yen since my first election,&#8221; he wrote.
 When I report my finances, I sacrifice my precious limited time to submit the documents after carefully checking them with my secretary, asking her questions one by one.
 He also posted that he &#8220;sacrificed his precious limited time when reporting his income and expenditures to submit the documents after carefully checking them by questioning his secretary one by one. However, when the Political Ethics Committee questioned him about the slush fund issue, he responded, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know, I don&#8217;t know.
 &#8220;I don&#8217;t know, I don&#8217;t know.
 He has repeatedly answered, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know, I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; and has received an &#8220;extra-large boomerang.
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 This year&#8217;s tax returns have sparked complaints from well-meaning citizens. The official X of the IRS states
 &#8220;It is too much to ask the public to pay taxes while the slush fund issue is still unresolved.
 First of all, you should conduct a tax investigation on the taxpayers of the councilors who are behind the money! You are talking to the wrong people!
 The voices of outrage lined up in a row.
 Prime Minister Kishida&#8217;s call to &#8220;think about the meaning of tax payment&#8221; was met with
 Is this a gag?
 The Internet is ablaze with the question, &#8220;What is the point of paying taxes?
 The Diet members who say that it is their duty to the people but &#8220;refuse to pay taxes&#8221; are shaking the very foundations of the nation. Do they not think the Japanese people are too stupid?

 Takeshi Kinugawa

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