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Abe: No consumption tax hike until October 2019

TOKYO -- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided to postpone the planned consumption tax hike, originally slated for April 2017, by two and half years, to October 2019, government sources said Saturday. 

(Nikkei)

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