10% increase in the consumption tax rate 9:51 on October 1st
The consumption tax rate has been raised to 10% per day, and a reduced tax rate has been introduced for the first time to keep the tax rate for food and drinks excluding alcoholic beverages and restaurants at 8%.
At retail stores in various places, we are busy dealing with measures such as replacing price tags for products subject to reduced tax rates.
The consumption tax rate was raised from 8% to 10% per day.
In this tax rate increase, a reduced tax rate was introduced for the first time, with the tax rate of food and beverages excluding alcoholic beverages and restaurants set at 8%, and up to 5% of points will be returned in points when paying cashlessly at small and medium-sized stores. The system has started.
At convenience stores that are open 24 hours a day, after midnight, the price tag of products subject to the reduced tax rate was replaced with a new price tag with the word “light” representing the reduced tax rate.
Retail stores that start operating in the morning are preparing for new tax rates to open.
In addition, after the last train, each railway company has finally switched the ticket vending machine system and fare table, and since the beginning of the day, it has been operating at a new fare reflecting the 10% tax rate.
The focus will be on whether the newly introduced reduced tax rate and point return system are complicated and difficult to understand, and the system can be started without any confusion at stores that start operations from the morning of the 1st.