A new fossil fuel tax and an extension of green taxes on cars are among the major fiscal 2010 tax proposals submitted to the government of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Oct. 30.rnMotohisa Furukawa, vice cabinet office minister, said Nov. 1 in a government broadcast that the Hatoyama administration intends to repeal gasoline and other provisional taxes charged on fossil fuels and instead introduce a "global warming mitigation tax."
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