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Prime Minister Takaichi: 'Reduce Consumption Tax on Food to 1%'

Prime Minister Takaichi is weighing a bold plan to cut the consumption tax on food from 8% to 1% for two years, starting next April. To soften the blow for low-income households, she proposes cash payments that would erase the tax entirely, while urging her party to rally behind the idea. Will this autumn's Diet session turn her proposal into law?

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消費しょうひぜいについてのニュースです。
ものもの消費しょうひぜいは、いま、8%です。
高市たかいち総理そうり大臣だいじんは30にち来年らいねん4月しがつから2ねんものなどの消費しょうひぜいを1%にげることをかんがえているといました。
収入しゅうにゅうすくないひとには、くに消費しょうひぜい1%とおなじぐらいのおかねして、消費しょうひぜいがゼロになるのとおなじようにすることをかんがえています。
そして、自民党じみんとうなか意見いけんをまとめるようにいました。
高市たかいち総理そうり大臣だいじんは、今年ことしあき国会こっかいで、法律ほうりつつくりたいとっています。

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This is news about the consumption tax. The consumption tax on food and drinks is currently 8%. Prime Minister Takaichi said on the 30th that he is considering reducing the consumption tax on food to 1% for two years starting next April. For people with low income, the government is considering providing money equivalent to the 1% consumption tax, effectively making the tax zero for them. He also instructed the Liberal Democratic Party to consolidate opinions on this matter. Prime Minister Takaichi expressed his intention to create a law during this autumn's session of the National Diet.

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