Food items except at restaurants to be exempt from sales tax hike

Food items except at restaurants to be exempt from sales tax hike

Sadakazu Tanigaki (L) and Yoshihisa Inoue, secretaries general of the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito party, respectively, meet the press at a hotel in Tokyo on Dec. 12, 2015. The two parties making up the ruling coalition reached a final agreement that day to designate all food products except at restaurants as subject to a lower consumption tax rate when the government raises the rate to 10 percent in fiscal 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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