Article 12-2Special Provisions on Exemption from Tax Liability of Newly Established Corporations
第十二条の二（新設法人の納税義務の免除の特例）
Of corporations that have no base period for the business year (excluding a social welfare corporation prescribed in Article 22 (Definitions) of the Social Welfare Act (Act No. 45 of 1951) and any other corporation established exclusively for the purpose of making transfers, etc. of assets listed in Appended Table 2, as specified by Cabinet Order), for a corporation whose amount of capital or contributions on the first day of that business year is 10 million yen or more (hereinafter in this paragraph and the following paragraph referred to as a "newly established corporation"), the provisions of the main clause of Article 9, paragraph (1) do not apply to taxable transfers, etc. of assets and specified taxable purchases in each taxable period included in the business year of that newly established corporation in which it has no base period (excluding a taxable period for which the obligation to pay consumption tax is not exempted by the submission of a written notification under Article 9, paragraph (4), or under the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraph (1), Article 11, paragraph (3) or (4), or paragraph (1) or (2) of the preceding Article).
その事業年度の基準期間がない法人（社会福祉法（昭和二十六年法律第四十五号）第二十二条（定義）に規定する社会福祉法人その他の専ら別表第二に掲げる資産の譲渡等を行うことを目的として設立された法人で政令で定めるものを除く。）のうち、当該事業年度開始の日における資本金の額又は出資の金額が千万円以上である法人（以下この項及び次項において「新設法人」という。）については、当該新設法人の基準期間がない事業年度に含まれる各課税期間（第九条第四項の規定による届出書の提出により、又は第九条の二第一項、第十一条第三項若しくは第四項若しくは前条第一項若しくは第二項の規定により消費税を納める義務が免除されないこととなる課税期間を除く。）における課税資産の譲渡等及び特定課税仕入れについては、第九条第一項本文の規定は、適用しない。
In the case where a newly established corporation prescribed in the preceding paragraph makes a purchase, etc. of an adjustment-target fixed asset during a taxable period included in the business year in which it has no base period (excluding a taxable period to which the provisions of Article 37, paragraph (1) apply), the provisions of the main clause of Article 9, paragraph (1) do not apply to taxable transfers, etc. of assets and specified taxable purchases in each taxable period from the taxable period that includes the day of the purchase, etc. of the adjustment-target fixed asset by that newly established corporation through the taxable period that includes the day on which three years have elapsed from the first day of that taxable period (excluding a taxable period in which the taxable sales in the base period exceed 10 million yen and a taxable period for which the obligation to pay consumption tax is not exempted by the submission of a written notification under Article 9, paragraph (4), or under the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraph (1), Article 11, paragraph (3) or (4), paragraphs (1) through (3) of the preceding Article, or the preceding paragraph).
前項の新設法人が、その基準期間がない事業年度に含まれる各課税期間（第三十七条第一項の規定の適用を受ける課税期間を除く。）中に調整対象固定資産の仕入れ等を行つた場合には、当該新設法人の当該調整対象固定資産の仕入れ等の日の属する課税期間から当該課税期間の初日以後三年を経過する日の属する課税期間までの各課税期間（その基準期間における課税売上高が千万円を超える課税期間及び第九条第四項の規定による届出書の提出により、又は第九条の二第一項、第十一条第三項若しくは第四項、前条第一項から第三項まで若しくは前項の規定により消費税を納める義務が免除されないこととなる課税期間を除く。）における課税資産の譲渡等及び特定課税仕入れについては、第九条第一項本文の規定は、適用しない。
In the case where a foreign corporation that has a base period for the business year (meaning a foreign corporation prescribed in Article 2, item (iv) (Definitions) of the Corporation Tax Act; the same applies in paragraph (5) of the following Article) commences, on or after the day following the last day of that base period, a business relating to taxable transfers, etc. of assets in Japan, the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs apply to that business year, deeming that there is no base period.
Necessary matters concerning the application of the provisions of paragraph (2) in the case where the purchase, etc. of an adjustment-target fixed asset prescribed in that paragraph is the taking of taxable goods out of a bonded area in connection with the submission of a special return, and in other cases, are specified by Cabinet Order.