Prime Minister's News Update

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Friday, July 14, 2000

Tax Commission Submits Midterm
Report to Prime Minister

The Tax Commission, an advisory body to the Prime Minister chaired by Hiroshi Kato, President of Chiba University of Commerce, submitted a midterm report outlining the taxation system it envisages for Japan in the twenty-first century to Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori. The report, "The Current Situation and Issues Regarding the Japanese Taxation System: Working for Participation and Making Choices Toward the Twenty-first Century," also called for national debate on social insurance and other public services and their costs, in view of Japan's aging society and falling birthrate and present fiscal constraints.


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