Open House donates 170 million yen to the revitalization of the floating hot spring town through corporate hometown tax payment

On Tuesday, November 29, the Real Estate Trading Open House Group donated 170 million yen to Minakami Town, Gunma Prefecture as a corporate version of hometown tax payment.

The donation will be used for the "Floating Hot Spring Town Revitalization Project" under a partnership agreement between the company, Minakami Town, Gunma Bank, and the University of Tokyo's Graduate School, which started in September last year. The project aims to revitalize the floating hot spring town, which has been declining in recent years, and is an effort to revitalize the former Ichiyotei, an abandoned inn. In addition to this donation, the town's budget and the town were adopted as financial resources this year State subsidies is used.

On the site of the former Ichiyotei, there is a plan to create "Hiroba", which will become an icon of the hot spring town. "We would like to announce the specific content and schedule within the fiscal year" (Minakami Town Comprehensive Strategy Division). The project was conducted by students of the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Urban Design Laboratory, who have been meticulously conducting fieldwork in a hot spring town since last year. Focusing on the history, transition, and geography of the hot spring town, he says, "The key is to reduce and revitalize the next generation" (a graduate student at the University of Tokyo).

The corporate version of hometown taxpayer companies has the advantage of reducing the burden of corporate taxes and engaging in social contribution activities when companies make donations to local revitalization initiatives of local governments.
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