Senior Komeito official sees need for multiple sales tax rates

Senior Komeito official sees need for multiple sales tax rates

Tetsuo Saito, head of the Komeito party's tax system research commission, speaks in an interview in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2015, reiterating the ruling coalition party's position that the introduction of reduced tax rates on daily necessities is needed to ease the burden on taxpayers when the government raises the consumption tax by 2 percentage points to 10 percent as planned in April 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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