EARTH TAX - Key Persons
After graduating from university, Hiroshi Shimazoe worked in Food Service Insustry and engaged in cost control. After acquiring Financial Planner certificate, he worked as an insurance sales person in Chiyoda Mutual Life Insurance, and at the same time he worked as a non-life insurance agent in Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
He worked for tax accounting office as tax adviser and engaged in bookkeeping and filing tax returns to both corporate ans individual clients after his retirement from Chiyoda Mutual Life Insuranse Company.
Shimazoe Tax & accounting office was established in 2000 after acquisition of Japanese Certified Public Tax accountant qualification. He engaged in tax accounting adviser business as well as business succession and business consulting related to tax accounting.
In 2006, Earth Tax Corporation was established for the purpose of business expansion and he has been a representative director since then.
On top of his normal job, he has been working as a Consumption and Income Tax law teacher at TAC School specialized in teaching tax and accounting since 1998. He also holds the seminars on Consumption Tax and Business Succession at Mizuho Reserch Institute and Foundation.
After graduating from Waseda University, Kazuhito Masui was engaged in the raw materials import business at NKK and also studied in the UK and overseas Legal Office .He worked as an international management consultant after his work as the Canada-British Columbia Ministry of International Trade and Industry Trade Commissioner.
He resigned from NKK after working for 20 years, and he took a teaching job as professor at Okayama University, Graduate course of Interdisciplinary intellectual property Laws at Kokushikan Univercity, Kitami Institute of Technology, etc. He also worked as a lawyer specializing in licensing agreements, international agreements, dumping, and corporate law in Shiba International Law Offices.
Publishing activities are also performed energetically and approximately 55 books were published including the books on lifestyle and textbooks on International Trade Law and Business. In April 2008, he joined Earth Tax Group.
After graduating from Chuo University, Kazuto Ishikura worked in an accounting firm for 6 years and in a Video production and sales company for 10 years. He engaged in general administration including general affairs and accounting operations at the Video production and sales company.
Currently with his experience in previous job, he is responsible for management of Earth Tax Corporation, and tax accounting and cash management for our corporate clients.
Maki Suzuki joined Earth Tax in 2007, and she engaged in the management of SPC vehicle scheme.
From 2008 to 2011, she worked with Morgan Stanley Properties Japan as an on-site accountant, and had a wide experience for management of the real estate securitization.
She is taking care of the real estate securitization of the fund of Asian countries currently, and providing the comprehensive services including accounting service, cash management service.
Furthermore, she is supporting Asian individual investors' property investment business in Japan from account / tax perspective.
After graduating from Takushoku University of Political Science, Masahiko Kato worked in the management department of a manufacturer company for three years.
After leaving the previous company, he moved on to work in an individual accounting firm specializing in individual tax accounting.
Currently, he is in charge of tax advisory work of corporations, restructuring of group companies and fund operations.
He is also the in-charge for asset tax consulting and advisory on inheritance businesses planning.
Takeshi provided consulting and advisory services in the field of real estate securitizations, large-scale real estate transactions, onshore & offshore M&A transactions, corporate organizations and international taxation matters for both Japanese domestic and international clients when working for international professional firms (Arthur Andersen & KPMG), after having Tax & Accounting compliance service experiences at an independent firm.
Especially, with respect to the real estate securitizations, he engaged in the various types of real estate structuring operations and tax accounting compliance services regarding special purpose vehicles upon TMK & TK scheme and consulting services to the J-Reits as an in-charge manager.
After establishment of Earth Tax Corporation, he has continuously engaged in securitization transaction for real estates, in-bound real property investment, performing & non performing loans, stocks and lease transactions as a representative director.
He also holds the seminars on various Japanese Tax matters related to Real property investment in Japan at Singapore, Hong Kong and the other Asian big cities.
After graduating from Ritsumeikan University, Tetsuya Sato first started working as a sales consultant in a securities company.
Having interest and have always wanted to work in the tax industry, he is currently employed in Earth Tax Corporation.
Currently, his scope of work involves corporate restructuring and fund operations of group companies, as well as, tax advisory services for general corporations. He is also the in-charge for tax account settlement operation for group companies and SPC.