Land minister Seiji Maehara has proposed raising the gift tax exemption limit for home buyers to ¥21 million from ¥6.1 million to help stimulate economic activity, sources said Wednesday.
Maehara will seek the increase as part of the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry’s tax reform requests for fiscal 2010, they said.
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