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Bill to scrap gasoline tax surcharge

Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama reacts as the House of Representatives passes a bill to eliminate a provisional gasoline tax rate in parliament in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2025.

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Bill to scrap gasoline tax surcharge

The House of Representatives passes a bill to eliminate a provisional gasoline tax rate in parliament in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2025.

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Demonstration against VAT rate on food products

08.10.2025. Tallinn The Social Democrats organized a demonstration in front of the Parliament building to draw attention to the need to lower food prices. Social Democrats propose to reduce the value-added tax on food products from the current 24 percent to 9 percent. Photo: Rasmus Rebase, Postimees

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Demonstration against VAT rate on food products

08.10.2025. Tallinn The Social Democrats organized a demonstration in front of the Parliament building to draw attention to the need to lower food prices. Social Democrats propose to reduce the value-added tax on food products from the current 24 percent to 9 percent. Photo: Rasmus Rebase, Postimees

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Demonstration against VAT rate on food products

08.10.2025. Tallinn The Social Democrats organized a demonstration in front of the Parliament building to draw attention to the need to lower food prices. Social Democrats propose to reduce the value-added tax on food products from the current 24 percent to 9 percent. Photo: Rasmus Rebase, Postimees

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Demonstration against VAT rate on food products

08.10.2025. Tallinn The Social Democrats organized a demonstration in front of the Parliament building to draw attention to the need to lower food prices. Social Democrats propose to reduce the value-added tax on food products from the current 24 percent to 9 percent. Photo: Rasmus Rebase, Postimees

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Kyoto Mayor Matsui

KYOTO, Japan, Jan. 14 Kyodo - Kyoto Mayor Koji Matsui explains during a press conference in Kyoto on Jan. 14, 2025, about the city government's decision to raise its lodging tax for people staying at hotels and other accommodations from March 2026, setting the maximum rate at a sharply higher 10,000 yen ($64) per person per night. (Kyodo)

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Kyoto Mayor Matsui

Kyoto Mayor Koji Matsui explains during a press conference in Kyoto on Jan. 14, 2025, about the city government's decision to raise its lodging tax for people staying at hotels and other accommodations from March 2026, setting the maximum rate at a sharply higher 10,000 yen ($64) per person per night.

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The adoption of the state budget and tax changes in the parliament

11.12.2024. Tallinn. Riigikogu passed the State Budget for 2025 Act. The act outlines revenues of 17.7 billion in and 18.2 billion in expenditures. 2025, will bring several key tax changes in Estonia, including income tax and VAT rate rises, the introduction of a new car tax, and hikes in excise duties. Photo Eero Vabamägi, Postimees

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The adoption of the state budget and tax changes in the parliament

11.12.2024. Tallinn. Riigikogu passed the State Budget for 2025 Act. The act outlines revenues of 17.7 billion in and 18.2 billion in expenditures. 2025, will bring several key tax changes in Estonia, including income tax and VAT rate rises, the introduction of a new car tax, and hikes in excise duties. Photo Eero Vabamägi, Postimees

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The adoption of the state budget and tax changes in the parliament

11.12.2024. Tallinn. Riigikogu passed the State Budget for 2025 Act. The act outlines revenues of 17.7 billion in and 18.2 billion in expenditures. 2025, will bring several key tax changes in Estonia, including income tax and VAT rate rises, the introduction of a new car tax, and hikes in excise duties. Photo Eero Vabamägi, Postimees

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The adoption of the state budget and tax changes in the parliament

11.12.2024. Tallinn. Riigikogu passed the State Budget for 2025 Act. The act outlines revenues of 17.7 billion in and 18.2 billion in expenditures. 2025, will bring several key tax changes in Estonia, including income tax and VAT rate rises, the introduction of a new car tax, and hikes in excise duties. Photo Eero Vabamägi, Postimees

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Illustration App Store

SUQIAN, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 3, 2024 - Illustration taken on September 3, 2024 shows the Apple App Store in Suqian, Jiangsu province, China. China still applies the world's highest Apple tax rate.

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Illustration App Store

SUQIAN, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 3, 2024 - Illustration taken on September 3, 2024 shows the Apple App Store in Suqian, Jiangsu province, China. China still applies the world's highest Apple tax rate.

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Illustration App Store

SUQIAN, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 3, 2024 - Illustration taken on September 3, 2024 shows the Apple App Store in Suqian, Jiangsu province, China. China still applies the world's highest Apple tax rate.

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Illustration App Store

SUQIAN, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 3, 2024 - Illustration taken on September 3, 2024 shows the Apple App Store in Suqian, Jiangsu province, China. China still applies the world's highest Apple tax rate.

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Illustration App Store

SUQIAN, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 3, 2024 - Illustration taken on September 3, 2024 shows the Apple App Store in Suqian, Jiangsu province, China. China still applies the world's highest Apple tax rate.

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Illustration App Store

SUQIAN, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 3, 2024 - Illustration taken on September 3, 2024 shows the Apple App Store in Suqian, Jiangsu province, China. China still applies the world's highest Apple tax rate.

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Spain: Hundreds Gather To Protest Against New Waste Disposal Tax Rate In Sabadell

Hundreds of people gathered at Plaça de Sant Roc in front of the Sabadell City Council on Thursday, June 13, to protest the new waste disposal tax rate and demand its repeal.

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China Stock Market Stamp Duty Halved

ANQING, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - Investors pay attention to the stock market at a securities business hall in Anqing city, East China's Anhui province, Aug. 28, 2023. Recently, the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation issued the Announcement on Halving the Stamp Tax on Securities Transactions, which will be halved from August 28. According to statistics, at present, there are more than 220 million individual investors in China's stock market, accounting for 99.76% of investors in the whole market. Reducing the stamp duty tax rate of securities transactions is conducive to enabling the tax reduction policy to benefit the majority of small and micro investors.

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China Stock Market Stamp Duty Halved

ANQING, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - Investors pay attention to the stock market at a securities business hall in Anqing city, East China's Anhui province, Aug. 28, 2023. Recently, the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation issued the Announcement on Halving the Stamp Tax on Securities Transactions, which will be halved from August 28. According to statistics, at present, there are more than 220 million individual investors in China's stock market, accounting for 99.76% of investors in the whole market. Reducing the stamp duty tax rate of securities transactions is conducive to enabling the tax reduction policy to benefit the majority of small and micro investors.

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China Stock Market Stamp Duty Halved

ANQING, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - Investors pay attention to the stock market at a securities business hall in Anqing city, East China's Anhui province, Aug. 28, 2023. Recently, the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation issued the Announcement on Halving the Stamp Tax on Securities Transactions, which will be halved from August 28. According to statistics, at present, there are more than 220 million individual investors in China's stock market, accounting for 99.76% of investors in the whole market. Reducing the stamp duty tax rate of securities transactions is conducive to enabling the tax reduction policy to benefit the majority of small and micro investors.

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Indonesia's inflation rate falls to 0.16 pct month-on-month in February

STORY: Indonesia's inflation rate falls to 0.16 pct month-on-month in February DATELINE: March 2, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:07 LOCATION: Jakarta CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of BPS Deputy for Distribution and Service Statistics Pudji Ismartini 1. various of statistics by Statistics Indonesia 2. various of street views of Jakarta 3. various of vendors STORYLINE: Indonesia's inflation rate fell to 0.16 percent month-on-month (mom) in February, compared to 0.34 percent the country recorded in the previous month, mainly contributed by the cost of transportation, the prices of food and beverages, and the higher tax on cigarettes, the Statistics Indonesia (BPS) announced on Wednesday. On a yearly basis, the inflation rose to 5.47 percent year-on-year last month, compared to 5.28 percent year-on-year in January. "The inflation in the transportation sector was affected by the increase in air transport fares, while the biggest contributors to month-on-month inflation were rice, cigarettes, shallots, and r

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Over 2.5-percentage-point cut in corporate tax eyed

TOKYO, Japan - Takeshi Noda (C), chairman of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's Research Commission on the Tax System, enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Japan, on Dec. 26, 2014, for talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Prior to their meeting, Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Akira Amari said it is "necessary" to cut Japan's 35 percent effective corporate tax rate by "more than 2.5 percentage points."

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Special economic advisor to PM Abe speaks in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Hamada, a special economic adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on economic affairs and professor emeritus at Yale University, speaks at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Dec. 1, 2014. He expressed his idea of lowering Japan's effective corporate tax rate to around 25% from the current rate of around 35%.

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Japan, U.S. business chiefs urge sales tax hike to 10%

TOKYO, Japan - Kunio Ishihara (L), counselor at Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., and John Lechleiter, chief executive officer of pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly and Co., shake hands at a Tokyo hotel on Nov. 14, 2014, after a press conference following an annual meeting of the Japan-U.S. Business Conference. The business leaders urged Japan's government to increase the consumption tax rate to 10 percent next year as planned to secure its commitment to fiscal rehabilitation.

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Japan, U.S. business chiefs urge sales tax hike to 10%

TOKYO, Japan - Kunio Ishihara (L), counselor at Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., and John Lechleiter, chief executive officer of pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly and Co., attend a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Nov. 14, 2014, following an annual meeting of the Japan-U.S. Business Conference. The business leaders urged Japan's government to increase the consumption tax rate to 10 percent next year as planned to secure its commitment to fiscal rehabilitation.

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Minister eyes over 2.5%-point cut in Japan's corporate tax

TOKYO, Japan - Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yoichi Miyazawa answers reporters' questions at a hotel in Tokyo on Nov. 10, 2014, on Japan's current 35 percent effective corporate tax rate. Miyazawa said he will aim for a cut of "more than 2.5 percentage points" in the tax rate in the fiscal year starting April 2015.

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Abe's adviser calls for delay to tax hike if economy slows

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Hamada, a Yale University emeritus professor of economics, is interviewed by Kyodo News in Tokyo on Sept. 8, 2014. Hamada, a special adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said the government should put off a further consumption tax hike to 10 percent in 2015 or raise the rate by 1 percentage point per year if the economy stalls.

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Amari vows to cut Japan's corporate tax rate below 30% within 5 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Economic and fiscal policy minister Akira Amari attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 3, 2014. He pledged to cut Japan's 35 percent effective corporate tax rate to below 30 percent within five years from the next fiscal year starting April 2015.

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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.

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Meeting over tax cuts

TOKYO, Japan - Akira Amari, minister of economic and fiscal policy, heads for a meeting with Finance Minister Taro Aso over plans to cut the corporate tax rate at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on June 13, 2014.

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Meeting over tax cuts

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Taro Aso heads for a meeting with Akira Amari, minister of economic and fiscal policy, over plans to cut the corporate tax rate at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on June 13, 2014.

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Osaka shrine's flower girls call for proper sales tax payment

OSAKA, Japan - Flower girls of Osaka Tenmangu shrine accompany a procession through the Tenjinbashisuji shopping arcade in Osaka on April 1, 2014, calling on people to pay the consumption tax. Japan's sales tax rate was raised from 5 percent to 8 percent on April 1.

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Japan's consumption tax hike

OSAKA, Japan - Demonstrators march in Osaka on April 1, 2014, to protest Japan's consumption tax rate hike to 8 percent implemented that day.

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Japan's consumption tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - A worker at a McDonald's outlet in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward hands change in 1 yen coins to a customer on April 1, 2014, after Japan's consumption tax rate was raised to 8 percent.

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Kyoto shop replaces price tags on sales tax rise

KYOTO, Japan - A store in Kyoto selling Japanese sweets has new price tags with tax-inclusive prices on them on April 1, 2014, as the consumption tax rate was raised from 5 percent to 8 percent that day.

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Japan's consumption tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at his office in Tokyo on April 1, 2014, answers a reporter's question about Japan's consumption tax rate that was raised to 8 percent that day.

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Japan's consumption tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Menus are switched at a McDonald's restaurant in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in the early hours of April 1, 2014, after Japan's consumption tax rate was raised to 8 percent.

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Japan's consumption tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Menus are switched at a McDonald's restaurant in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in the early hours of April 1, 2014, after Japan's consumption tax rate was raised to 8 percent.

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Kirin ramps up production ahead of sales tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Kirin Brewery Co.'s Toride plant in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, ramps up its production of beer and other beverages, as seen on March 3, 2014, in anticipation of increased demand before the consumption tax rate will be raised to 8 percent from the current 5 percent in April.

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