A tax increase in Japan on April 1st saw consumers make a last-minute rush for purchases in March, pushing the country’s retail sales up 11%, the fastest growth since March 1997.
The rise in sales tax is designed as a way to reduce public debt, the highest in the industrialised world and offset the company’s high social welfare costs.
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