# Japanese Crypto Tax Evader Hit With Year-long Jail Sentence By Coinness Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/investing/7315 Published: 2021-03-11T02:21:03.000Z Updated: 2021-03-11T02:21:03.000Z Section: Investing > Per Chunichi, the man, an office worker named Hideji Matsuda, was given a one-year sentence and fined over USD 202,000 by a judge at the Kanazawa District Court in Ishikawa. Per Chunichi, the man, an office worker named Hideji Matsuda, was given a one-year sentence and fined over USD 202,000 by a judge at the Kanazawa District Court in Ishikawa. The court heard that Matsuda had wilfully neglected to file accurate tax declarations on his bitcoin (BTC) trading in the period 2017-2018, and that he owed over USD 680,000 in taxes. He was found guilty of falsifying data on his tax submissions, claiming that he had earned just a fraction of the USD 1.7m he earned from BTC trading in this time period. [Coinness]() ## Links in this article - [Coinness](https://coinness.com)