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Tokyo pays billions for rural rescue
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Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara said Dec. 11 that he would agree to Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's request to hand over ¥300 billion in tax revenues. The money would go to help rural areas that are in financial trouble.
Under its planned tax system for 2008, the government is hoping to transfer a combined ¥400 billion from wealthier prefectures to troubled local governments.
"The demand is really outrageous," Ishihara said. (Kyodo)
東京都、税の委譲に国と同意
12月11日、福田康夫総理と石原慎太郎東京都知事が会談し、都の税収約3000億円を財政力の弱い自治体に回すことで大筋合意した。
Shukan ST: Dec. 21, 2007
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