(Update) Japanese Opposition Parties to Submit Bill on Gasoline Tax Cut

   Tokyo, July 25 (Jiji Press)--Parliamentary affairs chiefs from five Japanese opposition parties agreed on Friday to submit a bill to scrap the provisional add-on gasoline tax rate during an extraordinary parliamentary session set to start on Aug. 1.
   The five are the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party), the Democratic Party for the People, Reiwa Shinsengumi and the Japanese Communist Party.
   CDP parliamentary affairs chief Hirofumi Ryu later told his counterpart from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Tetsushi Sakamoto, that the bill should be deliberated during the extraordinary session.
   The LDP has been reluctant to start deliberations on such a gasoline tax cut at an early date, citing difficulty finding an alternative revenue source.
   Policy chiefs from eight opposition parties--the five parties plus Sanseito, the Conservative Party of Japan and the Social Democratic Party--agreed to abolish the add-on gasoline tax rate by the end of this year.

(2025/07/25-20:59)