TOKYO -- Japanese authorities have ordered Mizuho Bank to pay taxes on 8.4 billion yen ($77.2 million) in profit that it allegedly failed to report from a subsidiary based in the Cayman Islands.
Japanese megabank says it didn't skirt taxes in 2008 effort to raise capital

Mizuho Bank and its parent, Mizuho Financial Group, used subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands to raise capital after the 2008 financial crisis. © Reuters
TOKYO -- Japanese authorities have ordered Mizuho Bank to pay taxes on 8.4 billion yen ($77.2 million) in profit that it allegedly failed to report from a subsidiary based in the Cayman Islands.