The Fukuoka District Court docket on October 24 handed down a sentence to manga artist Erika Ikeda (36), who was accused of violating the Revenue Tax Act (merely failing to declare revenue taxes) by evading about 47 million yen in taxes by failure to declare revenue from illustrations for the favored manga “The Apothecary’s Diary.”
Choose Takeda Yuko discovered that the defendant had “dedicated giant quantities of tax evasion for a number of years, which is extraordinarily malicious,” and sentenced her to 10 months in jail, three years suspended, plus a effective of 11 million yen (the prosecution had sought a 10-month jail sentence and a effective of 14 million yen).
Based on the ruling, Ikeda earned a complete of about 260 million yen in manuscript charges and royalties from publishers within the three years from 2019 to 2021, however dedicated tax evasion by failing to file his tax returns on time.
Choose Takeda identified that though the manga out of the blue grew to become standard and Ikeda started incomes a big revenue, “she prioritized her work and private life and dedicated tax evasion.”
Ikeda is energetic as a manga artist beneath the pseudonym “Neko Kurage”. “The Apothecary’s Diary” is a manga adaptation of a novel of the identical identify and commenced serialization within the month-to-month journal “Large Gangan” in Might 2017.
