• Securing stable tax revenues is seen as a top priority at a time when the nation's aging population is expected to increase already ballooning social security expenses in the years ahead. | REUTERS
    Securing stable tax revenues is seen as a top priority at a time when the nation's aging population is expected to increase already ballooning social security expenses in the years ahead. | REUTERS
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As Japan takes on the elusive challenge of fiscal reconstruction, slowing tax revenue growth is casting a shadow over the future of the aging country.

That bodes ill for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has touted recent growth in tax income since taking office in 2012 as one of the achievements of his Abenomics policy mix.

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