The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP) said that the government's policy of increasing taxes in line with the increase in defense spending was "remarkably lacking in rationality and fairness," and secured the insufficient financial resources by strengthening the progressiveness of the income tax and financial income taxation. I have summarized the ideas of the party that I am asking you to do.
At the meeting of the "next cabinet" on the 2nd, the Constitutional Democratic Party summarized the basic idea of the government's "defense tax increase" for future parliamentary deliberations.
According to it, regarding the tax increase policy of the government in line with the increase in defense spending to 43 trillion yen over the next five years, it stated that "the diversion of the 'reconstruction special income tax' tramples on the feelings of the people in the disaster area and is absolutely unacceptable." .
He also criticized, ``The aim of targeting individual tax items that are easy to collect has not been able to win the understanding of the public, and is remarkably lacking in rationality and fairness.''
On top of that, we are asking the government to first carry out thorough expenditure reforms, and to secure insufficient financial resources by, for example, increasing the progressiveness of the income tax and strengthening financial income taxation.
After the meeting, Nagatsuma, Chairman of the Policy Research Council, said, ``We need to reform the tax system with the philosophy of strengthening the redistribution function of income, and also raise financial resources.''