The 2024 Yokohama City Tax Encouragement Director General Awards Ceremony was held (December 25, 2024).

　On December 19, we held the 2024 Yokohama City Tax Encouragement Director General Awards Ceremony in the cold weather of the New Year. Seya Ward conducts this program every year at the end of the year with the aim of raising awareness of city tax payments and raising awareness of knowledge about city taxes.

　This time, Mr. Takashi Kondo, who has been active as a tax accountant in the city for many years, gave the award in the presence of Chairman Noboru Endo of the Hodogaya Tax Association. Mr. Kondo, as a director of the Hodogaya Tax Association, has been working to raise awareness of tax payments, focusing on the `` invoice system '' introduced last year, to promote understanding of taxes in order to properly pay the consumption tax. I am. He is also a key person in the business community of Seya Ward, who also serves as Vice Chairman of the Hodogaya Corporate Association and also serves as a bridge between managers in the ward and tax accountant organizations. You.

　At the time of the award, it was impressive that Kondo said, "I want to change the world's consciousness of" getting tax "to the consciousness of" paying tax as a sovereign. " Regarding the word "sovereign", it was also supplemented that "it is important to think and communicate on your own, not passive." Elementary and junior high school students are also eager to work as tax accountants in "tax education" in which they learn about taxes with awareness.

　By the way, it will be the tax return season from February 17 of the new year. It is possible to create a tax return conveniently on a smartphone, and a tax accountant consultation will be held. We hope that inhabitants of a ward will have the opportunity to face the tax again through the annual tax return.

December 25, 2024
Director General of Seya Ward Ueki Yachiyo