Japan's Abe to Make Decision on Consumption Tax Increase "at the Appropriate Time"
After local media reported that the Japanese government would postpone the scheduled implementation of an increase in the consumption tax for a second time, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told the National Diet on 17 May that he would make up his mind on the matter "appropriately, at the appropriate time."
The increase, from 8% to 10%, was originally scheduled to go into effect on 1 April 2015, but…
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