Japan Diet OKs Bill to Scrap Add-On Gasoline Tax

Tokyo, Nov. 28 (Jiji Press)--Japan enacted Friday legislation to scrap the provisional tax surcharges for gasoline and diesel fuel in an effort to curb inflation, without specifying alternative sources for government funding. The add-on tax abolition bill passed through the Diet, the country's parliament, with a unanimous vote at a plenary session of the House of Councillors, the upper cham...