Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki described on October 28, "The consumption tax (tax increase) would be discussed in fiscal year 2007", and referred the price hike of the consumption tax rate in the House of Councilors Committee on Financial Affairs.
The permanent vice-minister of the Ministry of Finance Kouichi Hosokawa spoke the Finance Minister's remark with "The Minister might have described repeating the outline that he was making remarks on so far" at the regular news conference on the same day.
The undersecretary also showed his view with "The Minister's remark is only an outline that based the government party tax reform outline at the end of last year".
Moreover, the undersecretary made an excuse, "The Minister is making remarks so far 'The consumption tax was big and was able not to be put into practice at once even if it discussed it because an important tax. It is necessary to discuss it widely'".