Greeting for a new year in 2012
Acquired the “Authorized NPO of National Tax Agency”!
Action Plan of our Institute in the new age of NPO
Takeshi Kinoshita, President
Wish you the compliments of the season respectfully.
I greeted this New Year with the feeling of unusual stress since we acquired “Authorized NPO” of National Tax Agency in last Nov. , in prior to face “New NPO age” due to significant revision of NPO Law on April 1st in this year which shall be required us more responsibility and duty for local society.
The enormous Tohoku Earthquake on March 11, 2011 caused catastrophic damages on Japanese economy, particularly on many small and medium businesses that were suffered from operation due to strong yen and deflation.
Just the 3rd supplementary government budget has been passed and it will go to full-scale reconstruction and regeneration from now on.
Under this circumstances, our Institute wishes to develop and contribute support business further such as business consultation, patent acquisition assistance, certificate acquisition of ISO14001, certificate registration of Eco-action 21, bid for Yokosuka Base in US Navy, and so on to small-sized enterprises in Yokosuka/Miura and Yokohama area.
As mentioned in above, the NPO Law revision comes into forth on April in this year.
As influenced changes for our Institute by this law, the Competent Authority will be changed from Cabinet Office now to Kanagawa Pref. concerned. And the “Certified NPO System”, under the control of National Tax Agency, will be included in the NPO Law revision.
Fortunately, our Institute acquired the authorized NPO for five years from November 16th in last year, which is 1st at Yokosuka city, 20th in Kanagawa Pref. and 238th in Japan.
So our leading challenge in new year shall be formulation of the structure to accommodate ourselves to meet the requirements of the new era and satisfy measures of City, Pref. and Government which provided the setting for revision of NPO Law.
Upon positioning NPO as a leader of “New Public” which will be ministerial measures and policies, one of the purposes of the NPO Law revision is having a review of tax benefits in order for NPO to get donation extensively from general public as funds for its activities.
As one of accreditation requirements for being an authorized NPO, the public ratio in its business activities should be more than the value required by the law.
After deliberation and resolution in our board and our general assembly meeting, our business activities in this year would be under mentioned for maintaining and making accreditation requirement satisfactory.
Policies of our business activities
- Reinforcement of our activities of consisting with ministerial measures and policies
(Reinforcement of the existing business including public services and development of new public business) - Recruiting new corporate members of aspiring to public services
- Producing Industrial Cluster organized with local enterprises/universities/local governments
- Accumulating extensive information of conforming to the revised NPO Law
Specific plans
- Expanding support business system by creation of IT related business
- Conducting lectures and supporting activities to acquire the authorized NPO
- Expanding support business by consignment work received from public administrations
- Collaborating closely with industry-government-academia, NPO and other industrial associations
- Expanding environmental business further
- Providing chance for retirees to join the regional community
Our Institute, at August 2012, will be the ninth anniversary. I would like to express my hearty thanks for dedicating much time and efforts to support our activities done by all concerned of our members, small-medium sized manufacturers and enterprises, public administrations and industrial associations in Yokosuka/Miura and Yokohama area.
Finally I appreciate so much again for your kind support for the accreditation from National Tax Agency and also wish to ask for your further support and cooperation.
