Taxes as a percentage of base price are 260 percent for petrol and 256 percent for diesel.
Friday's data showing a modest pick up in household spending will be welcome news for the BOJ, which kept policy steady on Thursday and clung to its view that inflation will accelerate next year as rising wages spur consumer spending.
The central bank says it will expand annual bond purchases to 80 trillion yen a year, up from the current 50 trillion yen. It will also extend the duration of bonds it holds to about 7-10 years.
Labour demand continued to improve and household spending rose more than expected, providing hope that domestic demand could underwrite a recovery after lacklustre growth in the fourth quarter of last year.
The market sentiment has soared all around the world including the Asian equities as well. In an interview to CNBC-TV18, Richard Harris of Port Shelter Investment said that strong equity growth is the main reason for the sharp rise in the market.
Republicans in the US House of Representatives are resigned to seeing some sort of income tax increase in legislation to avoid a "fiscal cliff," but such efforts could be doomed in the absence of spending cuts, some Republican lawmakers say.
US President Barack Obama is hoping for a bipartisan solution to protect the middle class from an automatic tax hike in the absence of a budget deal, after a Republican proposal designed to help avert a year-end fiscal crisis fell through due to a Conservative backlash.
Newly re-elected President Barack Obama offered on Friday to deal with Republicans to avert a looming US fiscal calamity but insisted a tax increase for the very rich must be part of the bargain.
A newly re-elected President Barack Obama will push for higher taxes - including a dividend-tax hike that will cause a substantial drop in stocks, Pimco's Bill Gross told CNBC Wednesday.
Top US lawmakers will tackle the politically treacherous topic of tax hikes in their next round of debt-reduction talks, a Republican involved in the discussions said on Tuesday.