The country's tax revenues in November fell 2.8 percent from a year earlier to 6.3 trillion yen, the Finance Ministry said Tuesday.

Cumulative tax revenues from the start of fiscal 2004 in April through November came to 22.51 trillion yen, up 3.5 percent from the same period last year, the ministry said.

In November, income tax revenues fell 4 percent to 1.24 trillion yen, but corporate tax revenues rose 12.6 percent to 3.05 trillion yen.