Income tax reduction for single parents

The Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito Party have agreed to target households with annual incomes of 5 million yen or less regarding measures to reduce income taxes for single parents who are one of the focus of the tax reform next year.

In preparation for the tax reform next year, the Liberal Democratic Party was considering a plan to take measures to reduce income tax for single parents who are receiving child support.

However, in this plan, if the target is one child, the annual income is limited to parents with less than 2.3 million yen, so the Komeito party applies to parents who died or divorced from their spouses. There was a concern that there would be a difference between deductions and income restrictions.

And at the subcommittee of the Liberal Democratic Party tax examination meeting held on the 10th, unmarried single parents gathered in front of the room with a placard, so that Inada secretary-in-chief's representatives will support in the same way as "Widower deduction" Opinion to ask for one after another.

For this reason, the Liberal Democratic Party tax examination committee, at the executive meeting, like the “Widows exemption”, the target was extended to households with annual income of 5 million yen or less, and the deduction amount was 350,000 yen.

After that, the Liberal Democratic Party consulted with the Komeito Party and agreed on such a plan. Both the Liberal Democratic Party and Komei Party will include the tax reform outline determined on the 12th.

Response from support groups

Chiko Akaishi, a single parent who is a single parent who has gathered at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters and serves as the president of a support group, told reporters, “It seems like a dream because I have felt that there are differences in discrimination and handling in various places. I felt that Japanese society would change because it would be fair. "

Led Deputy Secretary General Inada “Problems of Equity and Equality over the Problem of Family View”

Liberal Democratic Secretary Inada of the Liberal Democratic Party told reporters, “I had a sense of crisis about creating new discrimination on issues of fairness and equality rather than issues of family view. This is the result of more than 130 LDP members agreeing and the movement of single parents. The LDP must recognize diversity. "

The Liberal Democratic Party's chairman of the Agricultural Tax Survey told reporters, “I want to make sure that there is no discrimination based on the presence of marriage. The LDP is going to put together a proposal and would like to follow the procedures within the ruling party and the government.” It was.