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Wall Street Journal (June 8)

2011/ 06/ 09 by jd in Global News

The International Monetary Fund’s Acting Managing Director John Lipsky backs increasing the sales tax in Japan as early as next year. Lipsky believes not increasing taxes would be a “wasted opportunity.” The comments may “reflect international concerns that fiscal problems in the world’s third-largest economy would eventually hurt the global economy if left untreated–after debt crises in European economies of much smaller scale roiled the global market in recent years.”

 

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