Chapter 1370 Wrestling
As the saying goes, a gangster is like a spring. If you are weak, he will be strong.
Although theoretically speaking, ruffians are bullies who bully the weak and fear the strong.
When faced with a hard nut that cannot be chewed, one will definitely choose to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. This is the nature of dirty things.
But the problem is that there is also a difference between a gangster and a rogue.
The little gangster's face is nothing, just throw it away.
Big gangsters are different. If you get into a certain class, your face is very valuable. If you hurt your face, you will lose a lot.
Just like Ikuo Shufang, he is used to being domineering in the entire Japanese entertainment industry.
Especially in recent years, he who thinks he has become the leader of the entertainment industry has rarely encountered opponents who dare to resist and have the ability to compete with him.
This time an opponent appeared who dared to resist his power. Everyone, whether they were friends, enemies, or people who were oppressed by him, were all watching how he would respond.
So even if he is not for the benefits promised to him by the Guo family, he is for maintaining his majesty and authority.
Before clearly realizing the gap in strength between them, Ikuo Shubo could not do nothing and give up so easily.
On the contrary, in order to regain face and place, let people know that he cannot be offended.
He will inevitably show more vicious attacks and revenge, and he must convince his opponent.
Otherwise, how can we continue to coerce and intimidate others?
So soon, September 5th was the day Michael Jackson's team flew to Tokyo, Japan for the "BAD" world tour.
The second wave of blows from Zhou Fang Ikuo also came.
This guy actually used his political connections to get people from the Internal Revenue Service and went to Matsumoto Office and Fog Studio to check the accounts.
Even Ning Weimin’s Tan Gong Restaurant was not forgotten by him.
You know, when meeting Akira Okamoto, Ikuo Shufang expressed full malice.
So it was logical that on September 6, Tan Gong Restaurant also received a surprise inspection by the IRS.
And at the same time, people from the public opinion side will naturally help.
In fact, on the day when the IRS came to investigate, several tabloid reporters rushed to the doors of these companies in advance, waiting for the IRS people to arrive, taking photos and publishing articles.
Then he exaggerated the facts and continued to exaggerate the troubles Matsumoto Keiko and Ning Weimin encountered in newspapers.
By the way, it can also achieve the effect of "whitewashing" Shu Fang Ikuo's combustion system.
After all, people who don’t know the truth can easily be led away.
If there can be a misunderstanding that Keiko Matsumoto and her husband are tax evaders, then they will naturally think that the previous accusations made by tabloids and artists are not groundless.
To be honest, Shu Fang Ikuo is quite ruthless in his skills.
If it were an ordinary person, he would probably be killed by this sudden attack.
Because Japan’s tax laws are extremely strict, the consequences of tax evasion or tax arrears are also extremely serious.
Those caught with sore feet in this area will not only be subject to hefty fines, but may also face criminal prosecution and property seizure.
Especially foreigners like Ning Weimin, who do not understand the situation in Japan, are likely to make mistakes.
If the situation is serious, you will inevitably be jailed and fined, and then deported directly.
Even if he is a Japanese spouse now, he still has no chance to regret and make amends.
But, then again, no matter how hard a fly tries, it cannot lay maggots in a seamless egg.
First of all, the time-travel plug-in allowed Ning Weimin to understand all aspects of Japan better than any foreigner in this era.
Except for legal tax avoidance, he has done nothing in tax matters.
He will not be like ordinary people who lose big because of small things, which affects their grand plans.
In addition, he spent a lot of money to hire excellent financial personnel and senior tax accountants from well-known firms.
And with the huge assets, it has also increased its investment in legal assistance.
Now he not only has financial personnel and lawyers dedicated to serving him to take care of daily business, but also the tax accountants and law firms he cooperates with are among the top institutions in Japan.
Therefore, no problem can be found in his accounts.
Matsumoto Keiko has no bad habit of tax evasion. She has always abided by the law and paid all her personal income, and the firm's accounts are also clean.
The safest place is Fog Studios, because the film industry itself is a good way to launder money.
What's more, "Li Xianglan" produced by Wu Studio is a co-production with the mainland of the Republic.
The crew is over there, so even if the expenses are obviously false, there will be no problem.
Who knows how much each burned set and ruined utensil cost?
It’s impossible, even the people who handled it at the time may not have figured it out clearly.
It is even less likely that Japan’s Internal Revenue Service will send people to the Republic for verification.
So the reality is that even if the tax investigators hired by Zhou Fangyuxiong are nitpicking, it is impossible to find faults in the accounts unless they engage in secret operations and frame them.
But this one is unrealistic, because let’s not talk about whether the tax investigator has the courage, whether he is guilty enough to work so hard for Zhou Fang Ikuo.
As far as Zhou Fang Ikuo’s report is concerned, there is no actual evidence.
Although he could suspect that Matsumoto Keiko had financial insider information just because he had risen rapidly in recent years and spent a lot of money to buy several studios and studios with unreasonable financial resources. Transactions, questions of unknown origin.
But the IRS cannot make a conclusion and impose penalties so easily.
According to legal provisions, the IRS must first find a breakthrough and obtain certain evidence before it can conduct a criminal investigation.
Therefore, the personnel dispatched by the Tokyo Internal Revenue Service this time were only from the investigation department, not the investigation department responsible for criminal investigation.
To put it bluntly, what they conducted this time was only an administrative investigation, a non-mandatory investigation. Both the scope and means of the investigation were relatively limited.
In other words, tax investigators will only investigate accounting books and accounting books that record inventory and daily transactions.
However, the subject’s residence and production and business premises cannot be compulsorily searched, nor are they entitled to seize or seal evidence, nor are they entitled to destroy door locks to force evidence collection.
Of course, the tax investigator can also inquire about the respondent’s declaration content and account book information.
When necessary, third parties such as banks and transaction parties of the subject under investigation may also be consulted.
However, if the subject refuses to cooperate, investigators are not allowed to conduct physical coercion or compulsory searches.
The subject of the investigation can only be prosecuted for crimes such as obstructing official business or refusing inspection.
In this case, it will not be easy for the tax investigators to verify the evidence of tax evasion, let alone use any tricks.
And in addition, the most important thing is that neither Matsumoto Keiko nor Ning Weimin are helpless and helpless Baiding.
For example, Yamaguchi Yoshiko, who was a senator at the time, and Takayo Sanae, the president of the Japan United Women's Association, both became friends with Keiko Matsumoto because of the movie "Rikaran".
So after receiving a pleading call from Matsumoto Keiko and getting assurance from her that there was indeed no problem with the accounts, they each called the Tokyo Taxation Bureau and expressed their concern about the matter in a serious manner. . You know, Japanese senators have the power to supervise government departments, which is equivalent to the Discipline Inspection Commission of the Republic in the future.
Although the United Women's Association is a purely non-governmental organization, it involves a wide range of people and has a great influence on public opinion.
So in the face of the pressure exerted by these two aunts, the Tokyo Taxation Bureau was naturally wary and did not dare to go beyond the boundaries. It could only follow the rules and act honestly and according to the rules.
Ning Weimin was even more outrageous. He didn't say hello to the embassy at all, nor did he call anyone for help. He could have said nothing.
I simply asked people to submit all the accounts and shareholder information to the Japanese tax officials, and let them check and look at them at will.
What was the result?
He actually bluffed the Japanese tax officials and scared them away just by relying on the qualifications of the two state-owned enterprises, Chongwen District Service Bureau and Tiantan Park, and relying on the semi-official status of Tan Palace Restaurant.
In this era, against the background of Sino-Japanese friendship, the two countries have signed a special agreement on taxation since 1983 in order to avoid double taxation and tax evasion.
Whether it is a Japanese company investing in China or a Chinese company investing in Japan, many places have special care in terms of taxation, and they cannot be treated mechanically like ordinary companies in Japan.
In this case, let alone Tan Gong Restaurant itself, there is nothing wrong with it. Even if there is any problem, the tax investigator does not dare to make the decision privately, and really dares to scratch his sore feet.
Because the consequences are serious and unpredictable.
If we fail, we will have to involve the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and turn a small matter of administrative investigation into a major matter involving diplomacy.
If nothing else, let’s just say that in this agreement, the Japanese took advantage after all.
Because the Republic has no money, the main purpose of signing this agreement is to attract Japanese investment and technology. On the contrary, the Republic's official investment in Japan is very small.
There are only a few Chinese companies in Japan?
And most of them have Japanese as partners.
Therefore, there are even fewer Chinese enterprises with official nature like Tan Gong Restaurant without Japanese participation.
In turn, how many Japanese companies are doing business in the Republic?
In this case, who dares to do it easily?
Once you do it to others, what will they think? Will it mess with you?
That’s a bad start, isn’t it because you are attacking yourself?
What's more, the tax investigator is not very familiar with the specific bilateral tax regulations and how to implement them, so he is very unsure.
Because this kind of situation is so rare, no one has ever encountered it.
Then he didn't retreat even though it was difficult?
Only a fool will continue to hold on to Tan Gong Restaurant. This is called a trap.
So, the few tax investigators who were sent down made a mistake and randomly looked through the account books for two days and returned without success.
With this move, it was easily resolved. Zhou Fang Ikuo was completely harmless to Matsumoto Keiko and Ning Weimin.
On the other hand, Koichi Hamada, the political backer initiated by Ikuo Suho, was quite dissatisfied with this incident. He gave Ikuo Suho a good scolding on the phone for causing such trouble for him.
He was warned not to provoke his opponent carelessly, but at least to conduct proper investigation to find out where the opponent came from and what kind of background he had.
For this reason, Zhou Fang Yuxiong also received another slap in the face. He apologized repeatedly for this and was very depressed.
To be honest, he did make the mistake of underestimating the enemy and took action without doing much investigation.
I never expected that Keiko Matsumoto would actually have political backing, and she actually made a fortune and expanded her career through stock trading. There was no insider trading at all.
Of course, he never expected that a restaurant could involve Chinese officials and possibly cause diplomatic impact.
But to be honest, there are limitations of the times these days, so I can’t entirely blame him for being careless.
After all, we are not in the information age yet. It is really difficult to fully investigate a person's background and social relationships.
This is not a matter of money, it also requires a large investment of time and manpower.
Even if Zhou Fangyuxiong used his connections in the industry and even spent a lot of money to hire a private detective, it could not be completed in a short time.
Even this can be said to be a difficult, low cost-effective, and very costly thing.
It's only easier to investigate a person's living habits and whereabouts. All you need to do is send someone to follow him.
Otherwise, it would be so convenient to check everything online in a few decades.
This week Fang Yuxiong will see the news about Ning Weimin in Japan, France and the Republic. He may not be willing to take the job assigned to him by the Guo Group.
After all, from the perspective of strength, although Ning Weimin cannot compete with the Guo family, the fact that he can spend 500 million US dollars in France is enough to scare him silly.
Because even though he is known as the "leader of the entertainment industry", his entire net worth is only 10 billion yen.
What's more, from a profit perspective, Ning Weimin is more in line with his business scope and will definitely bring a lot of benefits to the combustion system.
On the contrary, the Guo family is in the asset-heavy industry.
Although it is powerful, the sugar, grain and oil, planting, real estate, finance, commerce, shipping and hotel industries have much less overlap with the businesses of combustion-based artists.
In short, as long as he is not really stupid, Shu Fang Yuxiong can understand that fighting between gods is not something that he, a brat, can get involved in.
But the question is, how could he know this in this era?
To put it bluntly, he wanted to find out what scandalous material Matsumoto Keiko had been reported by the media in the past. Ning Weimin came to Tokyo to establish Dan Gong Restaurant and had been in newspapers several times. He relied on manpower to go to the library to search. It takes several days.
How can he check other situations?
And who would have thought that there would be a monster like Ning Weimin in this world with cheats?
So, everything is destined.
It can only be said that this guy was unlucky. In this era, he had a fight with Ning Weimin, so he made a wrong choice at the wrong time.
But even so, we have to admit that Ikuo Shubo's long-term status in the Japanese entertainment industry was not achieved purely by bragging.
And this name is not just nice to hear, it is also very valuable.
Although the tax investigation he initiated did not have the desired effect, it almost angered his political backers, and he was scolded in disgrace.
But his intimidation and control over many artists in the Japanese entertainment industry is real.
In fact, due to his power, even though the crew of "Black Leather Notepad" re-announced the public recruitment of actors in the industry, there are few artist agencies that dare to arrange for artists to apply.
Not only the weak offices, but also several major artist offices along with the Burning Department, are all keeping a wait-and-see approach.
It's not that you're afraid of him, it's probably that you just think it's not worth being grudged by him for such a little bit of grudge.
But no matter what, it means that the Burning Department has actually used artists to form a ban on Fog Studios.
That's not all, Ikkio Sufang himself also had a backup plan, and he continued to draw money from the bottom of the pot, and started to cause trouble for Fog Studio from the existing main actors of "Black Leather Notepad".
In addition, Shufang Ikuo also had a separate appointment with Minoru Funaki, the president of Taurus Palace.
With both grace and power, he expressed the hope that Minoru Funaki could persuade Teresa Deng to voluntarily quit the crew of "Crazy Rich Asians" and also terminate the cooperation with Fog Studios.
If they are willing to agree, the Burning Department is willing to accept Taurus Palace as a member of its system. In the future, no matter the media or awards, it will no longer discriminate against Taurus Palace and its artists.
If you don’t agree, you will also face incendiary retaliation. I am afraid that Taurus Palace will have to be careful every day from now on. There are not many artists who are being followed by the media to dig up dirt.
To put it bluntly, these measures are Zhou Fang Yuxiong using a hoe to dig into the roots of Ning Weimin.
As long as all the artists are cut off, no matter how talented they are, it will be difficult to "make a meal without rice".
But the problem is, although these tricks have always been Zhou Fang Yuxiong's tried and tested method to defeat the enemy.
But this time, it will really go so smoothly when used at Fog Film Factory. Will it really go as expected?
(End of this chapter)