Cameroon raises fuel prices

STORY: Cameroon raises fuel prices SHOOTING DATE: Feb. 3, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 4, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:26 LOCATION: Yaounde CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of street views and gas stations in Yaounde 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (French): ERIC BANGSI, Taxi driver in Yaounde 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (French): AYANG DJOWE BRUNO, Motorbike driver in Yaounde 4. various of street views and gas stations in Yaounde STORYLINE: The Cameroonian government on Friday hiked fuel prices, which went into effect from Saturday. According to a statement by Seraphin Magloire Fouda, Secretary General at the Prime Minister's Office, the price of a liter of Super has been increased from 730 XAF (approximately 1.21 U.S. dollars) per liter to 840 XAF (approximately 1.39 U.S. dollars) and gasoline increases from 720 XAF (approximately 1.19 U.S. dollars) per liter to 828 XAF (approximately 1.37 U.S. dollars). Fouda said in a statement Friday night that the price increase was "due to the need to absorb the growing budgetary constraints that the s

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Abe vows to bring Japan's corporate tax rate below 30%

Abe vows to bring Japan's corporate tax rate below 30%

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tells reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 13, 2014, his government intends to cut Japan's current 35 percent corporate tax rate to below 30 percent within the next few years. Abe also said his government will secure financial resources to cover a possible decline in tax revenues, but he did not specify how it would be achieved amid budgetary constraints. (Kyodo)