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- Your trip to Japan might be about to get a little more expensive.
- Travellers will be charged 1,000 yen ($ 9.37) for leaving the country as of 2019.
- According to Nikkei Asian Review, the tax is part of an effort to raise 40 billion yen annually to bolster tourism.
- The “sayonara tax” will be charged at the time the traveller buys air or sea tickets.
Travellers to Japan will soon have to pay a levy when departing the land of the rising sun.
The 1,000 yen ($ 9.37) tax will kick in starting Jan 7 in 2019, and applies to each person, including locals, leaving the country by air or sea.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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