It also affects the consumption tax increase "Furusato tax payment".
Reviewing return items to increase donations ... The increase in the consumption tax rate is also affecting the popular “hometown tax payment”.
The reason behind this is the so-called “30% rule,” in which the return goods sent by the local government are made less than 30% of the donation amount.
This is a new rule introduced by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications from June in order to stop the competition for excessive returns.
With this increase in the consumption tax rate, genres such as “Sake”, “Crafts”, and “Travel Tickets” have increased the price of returned goods, and there are cases where this 30% rule is touched. is.
Within these local governments, there are a number of cases where the donation amount is raised.
Hasami-cho, Nagasaki Prefecture is a famous Hasami-yaki tea bowl and cup set from 14,000 yen to 15,000 yen, Miyake-cho, Nara Prefecture, famous for leather goods, has baseball gloves and spikes from 40,000 to 40,000 yen. In addition to raising the price to 1,000 yen, Kumano City, Mie Prefecture, also plans to raise the popular pair accommodation voucher with an open-air bath from the current 155,000 yen.
Some municipalities do not raise the amount of donations, but review the contents of returned items.
Kuzumaki-cho, Iwate Prefecture has changed one bottle of wine to three cheesecakes out of a special product as a return for a donation of 35,000 yen.
Kaminoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture has sent 11 local hot spring entrance tickets for a donation of 20,000 yen, but will reduce it to 10.
However, some of the local governments that interviewed did not have to raise the amount of donations or review the returned goods by making efforts such as keeping the price unchanged.
“The increase in the amount of donations can have the effect of reducing the number of donations, but the producers have worked hard so far,” said Yoshinori Horikawa, Director of Finance Division, who is in charge of hometown tax payment in Miyake Town, Nara Prefecture. "I can't ask you for any more burden because I've received it ..." reveals the painful chest.
On the other hand, according to the person in charge of each municipality that interviewed, food is not subject to the increase in the consumption tax rate, so even if it is hometown tax payments, “meat”, “marine products”, “vegetables”, etc. have little impact.