日本众议院通过消费税减税法案：食品税率将由8%降至1%，石破茂等4名自民党议员表决前退席
东京——日本国会众议院全体会议于当地时间11月6日下午表决通过高市早苗政府提交的消费税减税相关法案，法案已送交参议院审议。
法案规定，自2027年4月起的两年内，食品与饮料的消费税率由现行的8%下调至1%；对因此减轻的负担部分，政府拟面向中低收入人群发放与收入挂钩的「支援金」予以衔接。自民党与日本维新会组成的执政联盟以多数赞成通过法案，国民民主党、公明党、参政党等在野党投了反对票。
表决前，自民党内四名议员退席离场、未参加投票：前首相石破茂、前经济产业大臣小渕优子、前法务大臣古川祯久与前经济企划厅长官船田元。据《每日新闻》报道，石破茂对身边人士表示「无法赞成那种东西」；船田元称减税财源未明确说明；小渕优子此前已因与减税方针不合辞去自民党税制调查会干部职务。自民党政务调查会长小林鹰之当天表示，对石破茂等人的退席「非常遗憾」。
法案下周起转入参议院审议，而执政联盟在参议院不占过半席位。政府与执政党希望在12月12日临时国会闭会前完成立法，但众议院审议中政府始终未具体说明减税财源与支援金的发放对象，参议院审议能在多大程度上澄清这些问题，将成为法案能否成立的焦点。
关联：日本首相高市早苗：不排除发债支持食品消费税减免，8%食品税率拟自明年4月起下调两年
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Japan's Lower House Passes Consumption Tax Cut Bill: Food Rate to Fall From 8% to 1%, as Ishiba and Three Other LDP Lawmakers Walk Out Before the Vote
Tokyo — Japan's House of Representatives passed the Takaichi government's consumption tax cut bill at a plenary session on the afternoon of November 6 local time, sending it to the House of Councillors.
The bill lowers the consumption tax rate on food and beverages from the current 8 percent to 1 percent for two years starting in April 2027, with the remaining relief for low- and middle-income households to be bridged by income-linked "support payments." The ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party carried the vote, while opposition parties including the Democratic Party for the People, Komeito and Sanseito voted against.
Before the vote, four LDP lawmakers left the chamber and did not take part: former Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, former economy minister Yuko Obuchi, former justice minister Yoshihisa Furukawa and former economic planning chief Hajime Funada. According to The Mainichi Shimbun, Ishiba told people around him that he could not support "that kind of thing"; Funada cited the bill's unspecified funding, and Obuchi had earlier resigned a senior post on the LDP's tax panel over her disagreement with the tax-cut policy. LDP policy chief Takayuki Kobayashi called the walkout "deeply regrettable."
The bill moves next week to the upper house, where the ruling coalition lacks a majority. The government hopes to enact it before the extraordinary Diet session closes on December 12, but it has yet to spell out how the tax cut will be funded or who will receive the support payments — the questions on which the upper-house deliberations, and the bill's fate, will turn.
Related: Japanese PM Takaichi: Food Consumption Tax Cut From Next April for Two Years
(Source: The Mainichi Shimbun)
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