TOKYO -- Japan's tax authority has ordered Yotta Games, a Hong Kong company that streams online games such as "Mafia City," to pay 1.8 billion yen ($11.85 million) in back taxes for three years through 2022, highlighting the authority's move to tax cross-border digital content transactions.
Yotta had evaded filing consumption tax returns for the sales in Japan, people familiar with the matter told Nikkei. The penalty slapped on the company by the Tokyo Regional Tax Bureau of the National Tax Agency includes an additional tax for not filing the return. Yotta Games did not respond to a request for comment.
