Former Adviser to Abe: Japan should delay sales tax hike
|Comments from Honda Etsuro – former economic adviser to Japan's Prime Mminister Shinzo Abe – are crossing the wires via Bloomberg that Abenomics will fail for real if the sales tax is raised now.
Japan is scheduled to raise sales tax from 8% to 10% in October.
Honda believes the hike should be put on hold until the Bank of Japan's 2% inflation objective is reached. It is worth noting that Hondo has convinced Abe to delay the tax hike twice before and is determinend to do so again.
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