If Japan’s past is a guide, some spending will be brought forward ahead of April’s consumption tax hike and it will slump thereafter. The experience from the 1997 increase in the same tax suggests that investment will pick up sooner and rise more than consumer spending. These are still early days, but the data so far are largely following this pattern.
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