Financial Times (July 3)
2013/ 07/ 04 by jd in Global News
“A tax rise now means hitting the fiscal brake while stepping on the monetary accelerator…. At some stage, Japan will probably have to raise sales tax from its hardly onerous level of 5 per cent. Mr Abe should think long and hard, however, about whether that time is now.”
Tags: Abe, Fiscal brake, Japan, Monetary accelerator, Sales tax, Tax rise