Mitsunari Okamoto
Leader of Komeito · Komeito
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Economy and energy
Consumption tax Cut the consumption tax
Said
He wants the 8% reduced rate on food cut permanently as welfare policy, and opposes cutting it for only a year or two as economic stimulus.
“私たち、福祉的な観点から、実は、経済対策として一、二年だけ軽減税率を下げるというのは私たちは反対です。それは、事務コストが高過ぎて、事業者の方への負担を余りにもかけ過ぎるからです。ただ、福祉的な観点から恒久的に下げていきたくて、おっしゃるとおり、今の経済規模でいいますと、仮に軽減税率八％をゼロにすると年間四・八兆円です。五兆円で十分に賄えます。”
Our translation We, from a welfare standpoint, in fact, are opposed to lowering the reduced tax rate for only one or two years as an economic measure. That is because the administrative cost is too high and it places far too great a burden on businesses. But from a welfare standpoint we want to lower it permanently, and as you say, at the current size of the economy, if the 8% reduced rate were made zero it would be 4.8 trillion yen a year. Five trillion yen would be enough to cover it.
Source House of Representatives Budget Committee, 11 November 2025 (Diet record, speech 57)
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