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Gaasy (54), a former House of Councillors member now working as a rakugo storyteller, reported on X (formerly Twitter) that he’d won a ¥3.68 million payout after hitting a trio bet (sanrenpuku) in the G1 Sprinters Stakes. When commenters responded with “pay your taxes,” Gaasy fired back in a follow-up post: “There are so many idiots jealous that I won, it’s honestly creepy lol.” On the 5ch entertainment/sports news board, the thread split between explanations of how tax rules apply to racing payouts and takes on Gaasy’s character, with opinions divided.
Gaasy reports ¥3.68 million horse racing payout… then shuts down “pay your taxes!” comments
Gaasy (real name Yoshikazu Higashitani), 54, a former House of Councillors member now working as a rakugo storyteller, updated his X (formerly Twitter) account on the 28th.
He addressed a post about hitting the trio bet (sanrenpuku) in the G1 Sprinters Stakes.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
it's absurd to only tax one big payout, you idiot.
Apparently a single payout of ¥10 million or more is the unofficial threshold for getting taxed.
There's no way the tax office wouldn't notice a win that's visible even to you.
Best bet: keep your gambling in cash and split your payouts into small amounts.
So if you buy in ¥500 increments ten times, it's tax-free, right?
Tell us his lifetime win/loss! He's probably deep in the red overall!
Basically, playing the horses is just a losing game.
I'm jealous of the amount he bet, but
the return rate itself is pretty ordinary.
He'll probably blow through the winnings fast anyway.
Well, it's an 8-horse trio box (sanrenpuku), so
normally that's a hit-rate-focused strategy where you accept plenty of losing combos.
Getting a 10x return with that kind of bet is actually pretty good.
This time Gaasy probably figured the race would be chaotic and spread his bets wide on longshots.
We still don't even know if he paid.
Him too, huh — a rakugo performer lol
Is rakugo turning into some kind of fallback career for washed-up YouTubers?
beating the runner-up by a 230,000-vote margin.
That's just the official line — 99% of people don't actually pay it.
If you cash out at the counter, you don't pay.
If you're betting online, you can't fudge it, so you have no choice but to pay.
Though for small amounts, the tax office tends to look the other way.
pathetic types who slap a label on someone first and then bask in their own imagined 'moral victory.'
Makes you wonder if it's exhausting for a guy like him to get bashed no matter what he does — though he's probably built himself a system where the money keeps coming in regardless.
Background and Key Points
Under Japanese tax law, horse racing payouts are classified as “occasional income” subject to declaration, but the cost of losing tickets generally cannot be deducted as an expense. The reason commenters argued that “his lifetime win/loss must be deep in the red” is rooted in a confusing quirk of the system: even someone who loses money overall can still be taxed on a single winning bet. The actual declaration rate for payouts is said to be low — cash payouts at the counter are hard to trace, while online betting leaves a record that effectively forces bettors to declare their winnings. This gap is one reason the “pay your taxes” camp and the “nobody actually declares it anyway” camp keep talking past each other. Since opinions on Gaasy himself remain divided, the thread also branched out from the tax question into broader debate over his character.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Entertainment/Sports News+) thread “Gaasy reports ¥3.68 million horse racing payout… shuts down ‘pay your taxes’ comments: ‘So many idiots jealous that I won, it’s creepy lol’.”
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