Japan should consider hiking the tobacco tax to cover the ballooning social security costs that are accompanying the rapid aging of society, economic and fiscal policy minister Hiroko Ota said Friday. "Tobacco tax is of course one of the candidates" for... ...full story at Japan Times
from Japan Times on Fri, Jun 06 2008
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