When the consumption tax rate is raised, about half of the purchase of “Premium gift certificate” is 5:31 on April 5
The application for “Premium Gift Certificates”, which was introduced as a measure against the economy accompanying the consumption tax hike, was only about half of the target audience, indicating that sales were sluggish.
As a measure to reduce the burden associated with the consumption tax rate being raised to 10% last October, “Premium gift certificates” were sold to child-raising households with infants and low-income households.
If you buy for 20,000 yen, you can buy 25,000 yen, and the use has been completed by the end of last month.
The target for sales was supposed to be 24.5 million people nationwide, but according to the Cabinet Office, the actual number of customers who applied for purchases was about 12.3 million at the end of January, which was only half. That is.
It may have been avoided because of the inconvenience of using a gift certificate in advance, such as the cost and time required to purchase it, and the Cabinet Office will conduct a questionnaire survey on the target persons to investigate the factors.
The government is urgently working on emergency economic measures following the spread of the new coronavirus, but effective measures should be taken based on the results of using gift certificates with premiums.