Article 12-3Special Provisions on Exemption from Tax Liability of Specified Newly Founded Corporations

①Of 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).

③The 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".

④The 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.

⑤In 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.

⑥Beyond 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.