Japan’s Suga: Not true PM Abe has decided to delay sales tax hike

Reuters reporting Japan chief cabinet secretary Suga’s comments, dismissing Japanese PM Abe sales tax hike delay comments published earlier today by the Japanese media.

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Suga denied a media report that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided to delay a sales tax hike scheduled for next year

"There is no such fact. It is utterly groundless"

Hike will go ahead unless there was a financial crisis on the scale of the Lehman Brothers collapse or a major natural disaster