In a fascinating mix of tax policy, economics, and could-only-happen-in-Japan, Japan has this system called Furosatou Nouzei ("Paying tax to your hometown") which is beautiful and bonkers at the same time: https://www.furusato-tax.jp/about.html
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And so now there is a web frontend on this to make sure that as many people take advantage of the system as possible. And you can even see towns specializing in whether they're going for straight-up economic incentives, SEO on that site, etc. Crikey. I could lose a day.
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"For [a donation of approximately $100], we will send someone out to a loved one's grave site within city limits, clean their grave, make an appropriate offering, and send you a photo." I expect opinions will be divided on this but I appreciate the person who thought of that.
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I guess there's an aspect of not wanting to be /too/ outrageous to avoid raising the ire of legislators to the point where they'll be bothered enough to change the system?
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Government changed the regulation last year, so now gifts value must be within 30% of the donated amount.
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That's right, travel agent can give them 30% kick back
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As of last year, there is actually an official guideline/rule/law(?) placing a ceiling on the ratio of gift to donation (IIRC, somewhere south of 50%).
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Can you still get http://DMM.com points to buy porn?
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has to be enough to motivate someone to do the work to arrange the scam. if it was 99.9% nobody gets the benefit to manage the bureaucracy here
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