Consumption tax increase The first day This happened. October 1, 19:48

NHK has been reporting across the country since midnight when the consumption tax was raised. Older people who drink coffee at eat-in even at high tax rates, employees who count the number of pig buns eaten in the store. I met various people. How was your first day of the tax increase?

0:00 am Gas station quiet

A 24-hour petrol station in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo.

In the middle of the night on the 30th when the consumption tax rate was about to rise, it was crowded with a car that would refuel at 8% consumption tax rate.

If the consumption tax rate changes to 10% at midnight, the retail price will change from 140 yen to 143 yen per liter for regular gasoline. The stand became quiet in no time.

Increase the number of employees and cross the day

Tokyo A convenience store in the city of Ikebukuro. The number of employees was increased more than usual, and when the date changed at midnight, the price tag was replaced.

In the food and drink corners that are subject to the reduced tax rate, the price tag with the word “light” displayed by the employee representing the reduced tax rate, and products that are subject to the consumption tax rate increase such as alcoholic beverages are marked with a black mark. It was replaced.

Eat-in "I don't have a partner to talk to ..."

A food supermarket in Tsurugashima City, Saitama Prefecture.

Attached paper around the cash register and eat-in space, explaining that the tax rate differs between take-out and in-store dining. If you eat or drink in the store, you are invited to apply at the time of checkout.

A woman in her 80's who uses eat-in space every day said, “Coffee is higher than usual, but I can save one by one because there is no one to talk to. The difference is so big that it feels like a low-income person crying. "

High school boy “Take home now”

“Yoshinoya” from a major beef bowl chain.

While the tax-included price of in-store food and beverages that are subject to a 10% tax rate will increase, the 8% reduced tax rate will be applied to “Takeaway”, and “Takeaway” will be cheaper even for the same beef bowl. The customer was also seen.

A 16-year-old male high school student who ate beef bowl in the store said, “I have no money, so I will take it home in the future.”

Restaurant selling lunch

Some have just started selling take-out bento boxes where the tax rate remains the same to uncover new demand.

Family restaurant “Matsumatsu Marumatsu”, headquartered in Tomiya City, Miyagi Prefecture, expects fewer people to dine in the restaurant after raising the consumption tax rate. We started selling take-out lunch boxes with the tax rate unchanged.

400 yen to 500 yen! ?

Morning market in Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture, which is a tourist attraction.

The Asahi Union sells unique gift certificates that can be purchased for 400 yen if you buy it for 400 yen. First, 2000. If popular, the policy is to increase the number sold.

Local governments also sell gift certificates

Some local governments began selling their “Gift voucher with premium” to all citizens with their own budget.

In Ebina City, Kanagawa Prefecture, a gift voucher with a premium of 5000 yen was sold for 4000 yen. It can be purchased by low-income earners and child-rearing households with small infants who are likely to have a large tax burden. There is a long line in the sales corner.

How many did you eat in the store?

A long-established pork bun shop in Chinatown, Kobe.

Both in-store dining and take-out are possible, but in the daytime and holidays when there is a line, employees are not enough and it is difficult to distinguish between 10% and 8%, so both are the same as before Sold for 100 yen including tax.

The difference was borne by the store, and the employees recorded the number of pork buns they had eaten in the store.

The store owner said, “Small stores like us can only respond in this way.”

Surpass by handwriting

Some retail stores are unable to implement due to a shortage of cash register items corresponding to the reduced tax rate, and some stores use a calculator or handwritten receipt.

A tea shop in Takasaki City, Gunma Prefecture ordered a cash register on the 10th of last month. Manufacturers are unable to keep up with production, and delivery is expected to be after mid-November.

For the time being, we couldn't account for the 10% tax rate at the cash register, but we used a calculator to calculate and hand-written receipts to the customers.

"The new cashier lives longer than me ..."

On the other hand, at the coffee shop where Shinichi Aonuma, 80-year-old has been operating for about 40 years in the center of Nagano City, there is a concern about how long it will continue to operate, but responding to the reduced tax rate because he can not make a large investment Abandoned the introduction of the cash register.

Since cash register corresponding to the reduced tax rate has not been introduced, it is necessary to record manually, which means that labor is greatly increased.

Aonuma-san says, “I think it's worth buying new cashiers because they live longer than ourselves. There are many small shops in trouble like this.”

(Please also see the special site that summarizes the consumption tax in detail)