Kishida not mulling capital-gains tax changes now


“There’s a lot that needs to be done before that, so I’m not thinking about touching that for now,” Kishida said of the capital gains tax on a Fuji TV news programme yesterday.

TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he is not considering changes to the country’s capital-gains tax at present as he focuses on other aspects of his policy agenda.

“There’s a lot that needs to be done before that, so I’m not thinking about touching that for now,” Kishida said of the capital gains tax on a Fuji TV news programme yesterday.

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