Biometrics, Certified Software Solutions, and the Japanese Consumption Tax: a Proposal For the Tax Commission

Significant change is anticipated in the Japanese Consumption Tax. This is the conclusion of the Japanese Tax Commission in its mid-term report, presented to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on June 17, 2003. When the Tax Commission’s Chairman, Professor Hiromitsu Ishi,[1]submitted A Sustainable Tax System for Japan’s Aging Society[2]the Commission indicated that it was responding to a“state of crisis…[brought about by the current system where] only about half of Japan’s annual…