Chinese authorities say the country will levy a consumption tax on electronic cigarettes starting from November.

我国相关部门表示，将从 11 月起对电子香烟征收消费税。

Against this background, a modest rise in the consumption tax ought scarcely to be an issue.

在这种背景下，消费税的适度提升几乎不该是个问题。

Mr Jaitley oversaw many of the financial reforms introduced under the government of Narendra Modi, including a consumption tax.

贾特利监督了莫迪执政期间推行的许多金融改革措施，包括消费税。

Officials say the move is aimed at improving the consumption tax system and giving better play to its role of encouraging healthy consumption.

官方表示，此举旨在完善消费税制度，更好地发挥消费税鼓励健康消费的作用。

It soon has to decide whether to go ahead with a planned rise in the consumption tax in April 2014 to boost tax revenues.

日本政府即将敲定是否继续进行原定于在2014年4月为促进税收而进行的上调消费税计划。

In fact, the consumption tax probably needs eventually to go up to 20%—ie, to European levels—if Japan is ever to have a hope of stabilising its finances.

实际上，如果日本还希望稳定其金融，那么消费税可能最终需要增加到20%，即欧洲的水平。

Even for an oil-rich country like Saudi Arabia, which has no income taxes, its increased spending in 2020 forced it to triple its consumption tax to 15%.

即使对于像沙特阿拉伯这样没有所得税的石油资源丰富的国家，其在 2020 年增加的支出也迫使其将消费税提高两倍至 15%。