Wednesday, December 31, 2014

The ruling parties’ 2015 Tax Reform Proposal


Today, the LDP and KOMEITO announced the next year’s Tax Reform Proposal has been finalized. Seeing the proposal, there are some points that I would like to refer here.

One of the feature is reducing the corporate tax down by 2.51%. This is the very PM Shinzo Abe’s 3rd arrows in order to strengthen Japanese business entities and also aiming to invite foreign investments to Japan.

However, I wonder this would really work as planned because the ruling parties also mentioned to apply the external standard taxation system to the smaller business entities at the same time. As the external standard taxation is severer to business by imposing tax on loss makers while corporate tax is only imposed on profit makers.

Actually, Tokyo stock market did not go up on the final day today on the contrary to expectation of the tax reform news. I believe many investors already know that it does not give an impact on pushing up Japanese market higher.

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