Japan’s new regulations comprehensively levy ＂exit tax＂ people： the government may have no money.

　　[Huang Wenwei, special correspondent of Global Times in Japan] On the 11th, the Japanese Senate passed the International Tourist Tax Law, stipulating that from next year, passengers leaving Japan will be uniformly taxed at a rate of 1,000 yen (about RMB 59 yuan) regardless of their nationality. The government pointed out that the purpose of taxation is to improve the tourism environment. The people ridiculed that the government may have no money.

　　According to Kyodo News, the Japanese government has set a goal to increase the number of visitors to Japan to 40 million by 2020, when the Olympic and Paralympic Games will be held. The new tax will be used as a financial resource to help revitalize the tourism industry to achieve this goal. The use of tourism tax mainly involves three aspects, that is, improving the environment for comfortable travel, improving the satisfaction of experiential tourism and strengthening the propaganda of Japanese charm. It is estimated that this income will reach 43 billion yen per year. This is Japan’s new permanent national tax after the establishment of land price tax in 1992. Opposition parties such as Democratic Progressive Party and communist party are opposed to this tax. They believe that the government has no specific indicators for the expected effect of the passenger tax, and the use of funds is unknown, which is likely to be wasted.

　　"Is there not enough money to host the Tokyo Olympic Games, so tax collection is changed?" On social networking sites in Japan, people argue that the government should not make a fuss about tourists and collect more money. Some netizens said that compared with the rising price of crude oil and fuel, going abroad is nothing. Anyway, people who can’t afford to go abroad still can’t go out, and people who often go overseas still have to go. Some people ridiculed that "strive to travel abroad once before the end of this year before the national tax is levied." Some people are worried that the government will add new taxes after the "national tax". A netizen pointed out, "Even if you go abroad, you have to be taxed. Is there a mobile phone tax, an e-book tax and so on?" Blindly increasing taxes will ruin the economy. " Others pointed out that foreigners and international students who go to work in Japan should be exempted from national tax.

　　Kyodo said that Japan is not the first country to levy national tax. Australia levies about 5,000 yen on passengers leaving the country by air or passenger ship, while South Korea levies about 1,000 yen on passengers leaving the country by air.

　　Japanese travel agents said that since tourists have to pay more taxes when traveling to Japan, they should provide better services to foreign tourists. The government should spend money on tourist services, such as repairing the airport and surrounding roads and the natural environment. People in the tourism industry are worried that this tax will be used in places other than tourism.