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Strategies & Market Trends : JAPAN-Nikkei-Time to go back up?

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To: Zardoz who wrote (1212)6/30/1998 7:26:00 PM
From: JEFF CHAPMAN  Read Replies (1) of 3902
 
NEWS FLASH:::

(COMTEX) B: Japan to implement permanent tax cuts next year: report
B: Japan to implement permanent tax cuts next year: report

TOKYO, July 1 (AFP) - The Japanese government and ruling party have
decided to implement permanent tax cuts next year by lowering income
and residential tax rates in a bid to revive the moribund economy, a
report said Wednesday.

The Liberal Democratic Party's Research Commission on the Tax System
will begin debate on lowering tax rates next week, the Yomiuri Shimbun
said without naming sources.

The scale of the tax reduction is expected to be two-to-four trillion
yen (14-to-29 billion dollars), the mass-circulation daily said.

One-off tax cuts worth two trillion yen were to have been introduced in
1999 but they will now be replaced with the permanent reductions, it
said.

The move was decided on as there are no signs of an economic recovery
with the yen staying fragile against the dollar, it said.

Calls for permanent tax cuts have mounted since Japan has gone ahead
with two sets of one-time tax cuts totalling four trillion yen this
year but failed to boost consumer spending.

Ruling party executives told US Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence
Summers of their plan to implement permanent tax cuts when he visited
Japan in late June, the daily said.

Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto will announce the permanent cuts
either during the election campaign for July 12 upper house elections
or before his meeting with US President Bill Clinton on July 22.

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