Article 12-3Special Provisions on Exemption from Tax Liability of Specified Newly Founded Corporations
第十二条の三(特定新規設立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 newly established corporation prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, a social welfare corporation prescribed in Article 22 (Definitions) of the Social Welfare Act, 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; hereinafter in this Article referred to as a "newly founded corporation"), for a newly founded corporation in the case where, on the first day of the business year in which it has no base period (hereinafter in this paragraph and the following paragraph referred to as the "new establishment start date"), it falls under the specified requirement (meaning a case where shares or capital contributions in a number or amount exceeding 50 percent of the total number or total amount of the issued shares or capital contributions of the newly founded corporation (excluding treasury shares or capital contributions held by that newly founded corporation) are held directly or indirectly by another person, or any other case specified by Cabinet Order as one in which the newly founded corporation is controlled by another person; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), and, with respect to any one of the other person who formed the basis for the determination that the newly founded corporation falls under the specified requirement and the corporations having a special relationship specified by Cabinet Order with that other person, the amount calculated as provided by Cabinet Order as taxable sales in the period corresponding to the base period of the business year of that newly founded corporation that includes the new establishment start date (excluding the amount of consideration for taxable transfers, etc. of assets in a business conducted by the national government or a local government as business pertaining to its general account) exceeds 500 million yen or the amount calculated as provided by Cabinet Order as gross revenue in the period corresponding to that base period (excluding that in a business conducted by the national government or a local government as business pertaining to its general account, or in a business conducted by a foreign country or a local government of a foreign country) exceeds 5 billion yen (such a newly founded corporation is hereinafter in this paragraph and paragraph (3) referred to as a "specified newly founded 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 specified newly founded 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), Article 12, paragraph (1) or (2), or paragraph (2) of the preceding Article).
その事業年度の基準期間がない法人(前条第一項に規定する新設法人及び社会福祉法第二十二条(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。以下この条において「新規設立法人」という。)のうち、その基準期間がない事業年度開始の日(以下この項及び次項において「新設開始日」という。)において特定要件(他の者により新規設立法人の発行済株式又は出資(その新規設立法人が有する自己の株式又は出資を除く。)の総数又は総額の百分の五十を超える数又は金額の株式又は出資が直接又は間接に保有される場合その他の他の者により新規設立法人が支配される場合として政令で定める場合であることをいう。以下この条において同じ。)に該当し、かつ、新規設立法人が特定要件に該当する旨の判定の基礎となつた他の者及び当該他の者と政令で定める特殊な関係にある法人のうちいずれかの者について当該新規設立法人の当該新設開始日の属する事業年度の基準期間に相当する期間における課税売上高として政令で定めるところにより計算した金額(国又は地方公共団体が一般会計に係る業務として行う事業における課税資産の譲渡等の対価の額を除く。)が五億円を超える場合又は当該基準期間に相当する期間における総収入金額として政令で定めるところにより計算した金額(国若しくは地方公共団体が一般会計に係る業務として行う事業又は外国若しくは外国の地方公共団体が行う事業におけるものを除く。)が五十億円を超える場合における当該新規設立法人(以下この項及び第三項において「特定新規設立法人」という。)については、当該特定新規設立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、第十二条第一項若しくは第二項若しくは前条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 founded corporation falls under the specified requirement on its new establishment start date and, among corporations that were corporations having the special relationship specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in the preceding paragraph with the other person prescribed in that paragraph and that were dissolved within one year before the day of establishment of that newly founded corporation or within one year before that new establishment start date, there is one that fell under a corporation having that special relationship on the day of its dissolution (excluding one that is still a corporation having that special relationship on that new establishment start date; hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as a "dissolved corporation"), the provisions of the preceding paragraph apply to that newly founded corporation, deeming that dissolved corporation to be a corporation having that special relationship.
The provisions of paragraphs (2) and (4) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the case where a specified newly founded corporation 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). In this case, the phrase "newly established corporation prescribed in the preceding paragraph" in paragraph (2) of the preceding Article is deemed to be replaced with "specified newly founded corporation prescribed in paragraph (1) of the following Article", the phrase "that newly established corporation" with "that specified newly founded corporation", and the phrase "or the preceding paragraph" with "this paragraph, or paragraph (1) of the following Article".
The other person prescribed in paragraph (1), when requested by a newly founded corporation that falls under the specified requirement to provide information on matters necessary for determining whether the case applies where the amount calculated as provided by Cabinet Order as the taxable sales referred to in that paragraph exceeds 500 million yen or the case applies where the amount calculated as provided by Cabinet Order as the gross revenue referred to in that paragraph exceeds 5 billion yen, must comply with the request.
In the case where a foreign corporation that has a base period for the business year 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 paragraphs apply to that business year, deeming that there is no base period.
Beyond what is specified in paragraph (2) through the preceding paragraph, necessary matters concerning the application of the provisions of paragraph (1) are specified by Cabinet Order.