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dagon
Improving its tax collection seems to be a goal of the LDP bureaucracy. With the MyNumber cards and pension payments for foreign residents.
While spending a gross amount on corporate welfare and crony capitalist projects and returning very little value to the citizens.
Nice little scam they got there.
lunatic
To avoid the Japanese tax you need to change the country of your AppStore or Google Play Store to any other country in the settings.
tora
What about just raising cooperate taxes on domestic conglomerates here that have been making record profits?
tora
Corporate :)
SDCA
Yup, sounds like a good idea when prices are inflated and our salaries have been stagnant. I don't care if we supposedly have the cheapest iPhone available to purchase, our salaries have not changed and yet the price for products in yen have been rising.
2021 OECD data
Median Annual Income in the US: $74,738 or 11,061,224 yen (rate: 148)
Median Annual Income in Japan: $39,711 or 5,877,228 yen (rate: 148)
128GB iPhone
Price of iPhone 13 in 2021: 98,800 yen (JP) or $799 (US)
Price of iPhone 13 in 2022: 119,800 yen (JP) or $799 (US)
The consumption tax on products will just increase prices for foreign made apps like VPN services for example. Probably not a good idea if your citizens to have more purchasing power, but good idea if you want your citizens to only buy domestic products. Either way, I don't see Japanese citizens moving away from purchasing Apple products any time soon.
SDCA
iPhone 14 not 13 in 2022
purple_depressed_bacon
Stinks of greed.
wallace
For Apple I use the American store mostly but occasionally the Japanese one for Japanese only apps.
Aly Rustom
Exactly.
Of course. It's the LDP.