Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi expressed his resolve Thursday to make dramatic changes to the nation's tax system in a bid to help promote structural reform.
Koizumi was speaking as the government's Tax Commission began full-scale discussions.
Koizumi called for a "tax system in which everyone shoulders part of the tax burden, and everyone is rewarded from that."
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