What Maezawa-san says is closest to my own view as well.
Anything that can’t be treated as a business expense will normally be rejected by the accounting department or the company’s tax advisor, and the president will have to pay for it personally.
Some people put everything down as expenses and leave it that way until a tax audit flags it, but if they’re caught, there will be penalties.
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How does it work?
If the card you’re given is a corporate card and the company records the purchases as business expenses, it may be able to reduce the amount of tax it pays. Let’s not get into whether that’s a good thing, though (lol).
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You won’t get the money back.
That said, he may possibly be treating it as a business expense. However, it would be difficult to expense purchases when he doesn’t know what you’re going to buy. More realistically, he would probably select only the items that could reasonably be claimed as expenses and expense those.
But if anything, it sounds more like:
“I want to buy you whatever you want.”
“I want to support you.”
For that, he can’t give you his personal card—since someone else using it is prohibited and the card could potentially be canceled. A family card would also be difficult.
That leaves getting a company card made and giving it to you, so it’s actually more likely that none of the purchases are being treated as business expenses at all.
With that in mind, I think you should use the card as though it were coming out of his personal wallet.
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