Diary of a rail fan in Kansai,Japan(Ver.2)

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Why isn't there Tokyo tax?

Tokyo is so crowded the government is paying families to leave
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/04/business/japan-pay-families-relocate-tokyo-intl-hnk/index.html

Rather than giving temporary money, it would be better to impose Tokyo tax on residents in Tokyo.
It must be heavy burden for them, if the tax is bigger than wage gap between countryside and Tokyo.
I guess government doesn't want to do it, because it's the tax imposed also on them.