One of the topics that everyone is most concerned about in Japan and abroad recently is the depreciation of the yen. The Japanese yen has depreciated significantly, even hitting a 20-year low.
You must know that Japan is highly dependent on imports in terms of food, grain, energy, and raw materials. After the devaluation of the yen, the prices of food, drink, and consumer goods have increased, and the cost of living in Japan has also increased.
Everything is rising, except wages. This can be said to be even worse for the lives of Japanese people, especially poor people.
In the face of the yen's plunge, the Bank of Japan has adopted a wait-and-see attitude. Since the Bank of Japan will not intervene in the short term, the Kishida government can only continue to provide relief to the poor.
The Japanese government finalized emergency economic countermeasures this month. Due to the impact of the epidemic and rising prices, the government will distribute a cash payment of 100,000 yen to households that are exempt from resident tax in 2022 to help them tide over the difficulties.
In December last year, the Japanese government established the 2021 supplementary budget and decided to pay 100,000 yen to non-taxable households in 2021, and the payment began this spring.
This support measure is limited to households that will become tax-free households starting from 2022, and does not apply to households that are already tax-free from 2021.
Due to various comprehensive reasons such as Russia's invasion of Ukraine , the weakness of the yen and other factors ( the Federal Reserve's interest rate hike ), the prices of gasoline and various commodities in Japan have increased. After discussions, the Japanese government decided that it is necessary to continue to support poverty-stricken people. Families provide assistance.
In addition to providing assistance to poor families, the Japanese government also intends to provide assistance to low-income families raising children. In addition to single-parent families who receive child support subsidies, families exempt from resident tax are also within the scope of assistance. Those who meet the criteria will receive a subsidy of 50,000 yen for each child.
For low-income families raising children in Japan, the Japanese government will provide subsidies in 2020 and 2021. It is also expected that 200 billion yen of reserves will be allocated in 2022.
In addition, the government is also considering a proposal for local governments to provide additional support payments to those in need based on local conditions.
Prime Minister Kishida will announce these policies next week as one of the pillars of his "comprehensive emergency measures".
The Japanese government’s differentiated payment of money has also attracted a lot of dissatisfaction from netizens.
Families with children are always included and misunderstood because the benefit is limited to families that are newly exempted from resident tax starting this year, so if that is the case, it seems that families who were already exempted from the previous year and this year are not. qualifications. And that doesn't mean all households exempt from the tax this year won't be left out, so the number of eligible households will shrink significantly. Instead of reporting these falsehoods, the media should report that the number of tax-exempt households is quite limited. However, Mr. Kishida did such a discriminatory thing even though he knew that everyone except the rich were in difficulty. He did not think that this would cause people to fight. He did not understand that there was political dissatisfaction in itself. Trust, because he doesn't think about the problem from the people's perspective at all.
According to low-income and tax-exempt families, the application documents are very complicated. After the death of the husband, the welfare pension was exempted from tax, but the son worked and paid the welfare pension and municipal taxes and could not get it! Just because there is no family separation, you can't get it! Because of all these complicated government relationships, I couldn’t get it! Even though I'm exempt from taxes, I still have to pay property tax, car tax, and other taxes, and I'm a Japanese citizen! Politicians are paid all sorts of things in parliament as a matter of course and they know nothing about the condition of the people! We also don’t get any receipts from them. Without receipts, how can members of Congress know their consumption? If they don't cut spending, it will be very difficult for the people.If you really care about the people, you should give each citizen 100,000 yen fairly! Nowadays, more and more people are committing suicide by jumping off buildings every day because they cannot make ends meet! It should be distributed fairly to every citizen without any restrictions or complications.
Finally, I would like to remind everyone that you do not need to actively apply for this payment. Ward offices across Japan will confirm the tax information of local residents and mail subsidy payment notices to families that meet the requirements. Families who receive the notice will press The requested information is required to receive the grant.
In fact, as Japanese netizens said, on the surface it sounds nice to support and distribute money, but in fact it has strict and demanding conditions for receiving it. Rising prices not only affect poor households, but also the general public. Japan is making great strides towards an extreme society where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
