In this way, the government made the liquor tax against sake breweries higher and higher and as a result, about 30 percent of the revenue of the Meiji government came to be made up by the liquor tax.
こうして政府は、酒蔵への課税をどんどん重くするようになり、明治政府は国家歳入のじつに3割前後を酒税に頼るにいたった。