The government should implement additional tax cuts worth 5 trillion yen because there is an urgent need to stimulate consumption in the current economic situation, the head of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry said Thursday.
Kosaku Inaba, chairman of the JCCI, said the government needs to implement an additional economic package worth 10 trillion yen for the next fiscal year, half of which should be in the form of tax cuts.
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