Article 9-2Special Provisions on Exemption from Tax Liability Based on Taxable Sales in the Previous Year or Previous Business Year, etc.
第九条の二（前年又は前事業年度等における課税売上高による納税義務の免除の特例）
In the case where the taxable sales in the base period for that year of an individual business operator, or in the base period for its business year of a corporation, are 10 million yen or less, if, among those individual business operators or corporations (excluding one whose obligation to pay consumption tax is not exempted by the submission of a written notification under paragraph (4) of the preceding Article), the taxable sales of the individual business operator in the specified period for that year, or of the corporation in the specified period for its business year, exceed 10 million yen, the main clause of paragraph (1) of that Article does not apply to taxable transfers, etc. of assets and specified taxable purchases in that year of that individual business operator or in that business year of that corporation.
The taxable sales in the specified period prescribed in the preceding paragraph means the balance remaining after deducting, from the total amount of consideration for taxable transfers, etc. of assets conducted in Japan during that specified period, the total of the amounts obtained by deducting the amount set forth in item (ii) from the amount set forth in item (i).
the amount of the refund, etc. of consideration for sales prescribed in Article 38, paragraph (1) that was made during the specified period;
特定期間中に行つた第三十八条第一項に規定する売上げに係る対価の返還等の金額
the amount calculated by multiplying the amount of consumption tax pertaining to the amount of the refund, etc. of consideration for sales prescribed in Article 38, paragraph (1) that was made during the specified period by 100/78.
特定期間中に行つた第三十八条第一項に規定する売上げに係る対価の返還等の金額に係る消費税額に七十八分の百を乗じて算出した金額
Where a business operator other than a foreign business operator applies paragraph (1), notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, it may treat as the taxable sales in the specified period under paragraph (1) the total of the amounts specified by Ministry of Finance Order as corresponding to the amount of the salary or other wage under that paragraph that should be stated in the payment slip prescribed in Article 231, paragraph (1) (Paper-Based Payment Slips for Salary and Other Wages, Severance Pay and Other Such Compensation, and Public Pensions and Retirement Packages) of the Income Tax Act, which the business operator paid during the specified period under paragraph (1).
The specified period prescribed in the preceding three paragraphs means the period specified in the following items for the category of business operators set forth in those items:
an individual business operator: the period from January 1 to June 30 of the year before that year;
個人事業者 その年の前年一月一日から六月三十日までの期間
a corporation that has a business year preceding its business year (excluding one of seven months or less and any other one specified by Cabinet Order (referred to as a "short business year" in the following item)): the six-month period from the day on which that preceding business year began;
a corporation whose business year preceding its business year is a short business year: the six-month period from the day on which the second business year preceding its business year (excluding one included in the base period for its business year and any other one specified by Cabinet Order) began (where that second preceding business year is six months or less, the period from the day on which that second preceding business year began to the day on which it ended).
Special provisions on that period in the case where the last day of the six-month period prescribed in item (ii) or (iii) of the preceding paragraph is not the last day of the month, and other matters necessary for the application of the preceding paragraphs, are specified by Cabinet Order.