The ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s powerful tax policy panel decided Wednesday to scrap plans to raise taxes on cigarettes and low-malt “happoshu” in fiscal 2002, LDP officials said.
The decision by the LDP’s Tax System Research Commission reverses a decision the day before by the LDP and its two coalition partners.
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