0001Capital Region Tiger ★.Aug. 25, 2024 (Sun) 00:18:40.65ID:9trb59wE9
“It is a wrong system that will undermine Tokyo’s autonomy.” Akio Maekawa (78), mayor of Tokyo’s Nerima ward, does not hide his indignation. As a result of ward residents making hometown tax donations to other municipalities, approximately 5 billion yen in taxes was lost in fiscal 2024. “It’s the cost of rebuilding one school,” he said emphatically. In Tokyo, the outflow of tax revenue due to resident tax deductions for donors continues to increase. The total revenue decrease for fiscal 2012 will amount to 189.9 billion yen. The cumulative total since the system was launched has reached 945.2 billion yen, fast approaching 1 trillion yen. Local Allocation Tax Grants… August 20, 2024 5:00 [Members-only article].
>>1 The problem with hometown tax is that the money that should have gone to the local government is simply sucked into the hands of middlemen. It’s a good thing that Tokyo’s local government’s tax revenue is reduced. All the metropolitan area has ever done is steal from the residents of other regions. Tokyo, the prefecture with the highest income in Japan, has a birth rate of 1.08, while Okinawa, the prefecture with the lowest income in Japan, has a birth rate of 1.80. The key to improving the birth rate is whether families and communities can help each other raise children, and policies and subsidies are only secondary factors that supplement that. All we need to do is eliminate the concentration of people in cities, which cuts off people’s ability to help each other. To achieve this, we need to impose special taxes on cities and distribute them to rural areas. The disparity in the value of one vote between urban and depopulated areas is a public welfare.
>>1 This needs to be reconsidered The local areas don’t seem to be particularly grateful to the urban areas It’s just become a money-grubbing thing 🤑 In some wards, resident services are apparently in a critical state.
Hometown tax is just tax evasion. It’s a system created for high-income earners to legally evade taxes. Each local government competes to provide items with high tax rebates for hometown tax. As a result, the total tax revenue that the local government can receive is greatly reduced. Naturally, when tax revenue decreases, they have no choice but to borrow money or lower the quality of local government services. Only high-income earners can receive high rebates. The idiots who are happy to use hometown tax should realize that they are causing the decline of Japan as a whole by evading the law. Low-income earners should realize that they are being deceived by high-income earners. This system should be criticized.
The problem would be solved if we could create a system where Tokyo residents could benefit by paying taxes to other cities, wards, towns, and villages in the city. Minato residents could pay taxes to Chiyoda Ward, and Hachioji residents could pay taxes to Ome City, right?
You don’t even pay any attention to the suffering in the regions due to the concentration of power in one place, but then you go on about complaining like it’s your own business.
Hometown tax donations are fine, but we need to stop this system of baiting people with gifts that use tax money as a cost. Make it so that people can voluntarily pay taxes to local governments.
At the root of this is the “austerity measures” implemented by the Ministry of Finance and the Liberal Democratic Party. Because of the austerity measures, local subsidies have been reduced, and instead prefectures are being forced to compete with each other through hometown tax donations.
Since it’s a hometown tax donation, the target area should really be the place of birth, or the municipality where you have been registered as a resident for more than 10 years, or the municipality of your parents’ hometown.
There are certainly more Diet members elected from urban areas with negative tax revenues than those elected from areas with positive tax revenues, so we should have a bipartisan review of the laws.
I wish there was a service set up where if Tokyo residents made hometown tax donations to the areas where they worked during the day, they could receive something nice in return on their commute.
3/4 of the loss in hometown tax revenues will be compensated for by local allocation tax, but this only applies to grant-receiving organizations, and those who don’t are left in a bad situation.
Even if we pay taxes to the Koike administration, they will disappear into garbage profiteering like the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Mapping Project. It would be a trillion times more meaningful to support the local area by receiving delicious food through hometown tax donations.
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