It was published on 31 December 2011 that, the Japanese coalition government has put forward long awaited plans to raise Japanese consumption tax to 10% by April 2015 in two steps. First there will be an increase from the current 5% consumption tax rate to 8% in April 2014. The second will be in April 2015 and the rate will then rise to 10%.
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