Japan DPP Head Says No Cooperation Unless Agreement on Tax Issue

Yuichiro Tamaki, the leader of Japan’s opposition Democratic Party for the People, signaled that his party wouldn’t cooperate with anyone unless one of its priorities on income tax issue is accepted.

• Says in X post that unless the income threshold for people to start paying taxes is raised to 1.78m yen from current 1.03m yen, his party “can’t cooperate on budgets and bills”
• Tamaki made the comments in reference to reports of government estimates saying annual tax revenues of central and local governments in total would fall by 7.6t yen if the threshold is raised
• NOTE: Reports say that ...