METI Reduces Burdens on Businesses in Terms of Administrative Procedures

In light of the report compiled by the Working Group on Administrative Procedures under the Regulatory Reform Promotion Council and the directions issued by the Prime Minister in March 2017, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) compiled basic plans concerning the reduction of burdens on businesses in terms of its administrative procedures.

Three principles for streamlining administrative procedures:
1) Thorough digitalization of administrative procedures（digital-first principle）
2) No second request for the same information to businesses（once-only principle）
3) Harmonization of formats
METI formulated the basic plans to achieve goals set to reduce the heavy burdens that businesses consider so involving administrative procedures in the following nine fields:
Procedures for obtaining permission or approval for business license; those for social insurance; national tax; local tax; procedures for subsidies; cooperation provisions for surveys or statistics research; procedures for labor control of employees; commercial registration; and issuance of a variety of certificates based on requests from employees.
Press-release at the Ministry official web-site