Tax Nintendo has set aside for the day its subsidiaries and affiliates pay out their retained profits, at 31 March 2026

What this is

Tax Nintendo has set aside for the day its subsidiaries and affiliates pay out their retained profits, at 31 March 2026: ¥55.0bn, up from ¥38.2bn.

How it’s built

1. Read from the deferred-tax note in Nintendo’s annual securities report for the year to March 2026.

What we assumed

Nothing. The figure is used as published.

Sanity check

Nintendo does not split this between its own subsidiaries and affiliates such as The Pokémon Company, so the Pokémon part is unknown.

Where it comes from

The line in the source

関係会社留保利益 △38,215百万円 △54,978百万円

In English

Deferred tax liability on retained earnings of subsidiaries/affiliates: -38,215 (prior) / -54,978 (current). Not split between subsidiaries and affiliates.

Where it’s used

• StoryNintendo
• StoryValue and risk
• Chart · Value and riskA full payout by The Pokémon Company would cost Nintendo ¥20–32bn of tax, against ¥55bn it has already set aside
• ProfileNintendo
• ProfileNintendo annual securities reports and results

Related figures

Built from this one

• EstimateAn upper bound on tax Nintendo has set aside against The Pokémon Company’s retained profits¥38.2bn

The same measure, other periods

• FiledYear to March 2025 (Apr 2024–Mar 2025)−¥38.2bn
• FiledYear to March 2022 (Apr 2021–Mar 2022)−¥22.3bn
• FiledYear to March 2017 (Apr 2016–Mar 2017)−¥9.6bn