Vehicle Taxation 2004
Automobile Taxation Reform Forum
November 6 (Saturday) 14:00-15:30 Central Conference Room 201
Eleven percent of revenues collected from nine types of taxes, all with similar purposes, is being used for expenses such as subway maintenance and other non-road maintenance uses. These five opinionated panelists discussed and analyzed the contradictions and problems of the current automobile taxation, while also making reference to the results of a user questionnaire from the Yomiuri Shimbun. The panelists also referred to how an ideal automobile tax system should be. They finished with the consensus that automobile users should use their collective strength to call for a lightened tax burden.


Terry Ito
TV Producer

Kayoko Miyata
Newscaster

Kiyoshi Okada
Japan Automobile Federation, Emeritus Professor of Seijo University

Naotsugu Mihori
Automobile Journalist