A: Hey there! Did you hear about the news?
B: Nah, what's up?

A: Well, looks like our government's thinking about increasing the departure tax!
B: Really now? How much are they planning to raise it?

A: They want to triple it! So, it would be around 3,000 yen.
B: That's quite a bit! But why are they doing this?

A: Seems like they wanna use the extra money to deal with the issues caused by too many tourists, you know, overtourism problems.
B: Oh, I see. The current tax is already more than 6 dollars. It's included in ticket prices for everyone leaving Japan, even Japanese citizens.
A: Yeah! And last year they made around 52 billion yen from the international tourist tax alone.
B: Wow, that's a lot of money! They're also considering reducing the cost of getting a passport for Japanese nationals to help lower the impact on citizens who travel abroad.
A: Exactly! The plan is to include this in next year's tax reform guidelines. Sounds like we might be paying more when we go overseas!