Japan to raise consumption tax

Japan to raise consumption tax

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announces that the government will raise Japan's consumption tax rate to 8 percent from 5 percent in April 2014 during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2013.

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