日本运输省、通产省、环境厅三省厅共同决定将燃耗低的汽车购买税下降2％,作为1999年度税制改革的纲要方针。在防止地球气候变暖的同时,给低迷的汽车市场的销售打了强心针。这次优惠税制一方面使私人汽车税率从5％下降到 Japan’s Ministry of Transport, the MITI and the Environment Agency jointly decided to reduce the purchase tax on motor vehicles with a low fuel consumption by 2% as the policy guideline for the 1999 tax reform. At the same time as preventing the earth’s climate from warming, it has given a boost to the sluggish sales in the auto market. The preferential tax system on the one hand the private car tax rate dropped to 5%