A domestic corporation which wishes to obtain approval set forth in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article for submitting the returns listed in the items of the paragraph in a Blue Return for each business year on or after the business year must submit an application form stating the first day of the business year and any other matters as specified by Ministry of Finance Order, to the competent district director with jurisdiction over the place for tax payment, by the day preceding the first day of the business year.
In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, when the business year falls under any of the business years listed in the following items, the due date for submitting an application form set forth in the paragraph is to be the day preceding the day specified in the relevant item, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph:
the business year containing the day on which an ordinary corporation or cooperative, etc., which is a domestic corporation, was established:The earlier day of either the day on which three months have elapsed from the day or the last day of the business year;
the business year containing the day on which a corporation in the public interest, etc. or an association or foundation without juridical personality, which is a domestic corporation, newly commenced a profit-making business:The earlier day of either the day on which three months have elapsed from the day or the last day of the business year;
the business year containing the day specified in each of the following in accordance with the category of corporation listed therein: The earlier day of either the day on which three months have elapsed from that day or the last day of the business year;
次に掲げる法人の区分に応じそれぞれ次に定める日の属する事業年度 同日以後三月を経過した日と当該事業年度終了の日とのうちいずれか早い日
a public interest corporation, etc. conducting a profit-making business that was a public service corporation: the date on which it became that public interest corporation, etc.;
an ordinary corporation or a cooperative, etc. that was a public service corporation or a public interest corporation, etc. not conducting a profit-making business: the date on which it became that ordinary corporation or cooperative, etc.
in the case where the period from the following days to the last day of the business years prescribed in the preceding three items is less than three months: the day on which an ordinary corporation or cooperative, etc., which is a domestic corporation, was established; the day on which a public interest corporation, etc. or an association or foundation without juridical personality, which is a domestic corporation, newly commenced a profit-making business; or the day specified in (a) or (b) of the preceding item in accordance with the category of corporation listed in (a) or (b) of that item (hereinafter referred to as the "date of establishment, etc." in this item); the business year following the business years prescribed in the preceding three items: The earlier day of either the day on which three months have elapsed from the date of establishment, etc. or the last day of the following business year.
(Blue Returns)
A domestic corporation may, when having obtained approval from the competent district director with jurisdiction over the place for tax payment, file a return listed as follows and an amended return…
内国法人は、納税地の所轄税務署長の承認を受けた場合には、次に掲げる申告書及びこれらの申告書に係る修正申告書を青色の申告書により提出することができる。
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A domestic corporation which wishes to obtain approval set forth in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article for submitting the returns listed in the items of the paragraph in a Blue Return for each…
当該事業年度以後の各事業年度の前条第一項各号に掲げる申告書を青色の申告書により提出することについて同項の承認を受けようとする内国法人は、当該事業年度開始の日の前日までに、当該事業年度開始の日その他財務省令で定める事項を記載した申請書を納税地の所轄税務署長に提出しなければならない。
Open this provision(Application for Approval to File a Blue Return)
the business year containing the day on which an ordinary corporation or cooperative, etc., which is a domestic corporation, was established:The earlier day of either the day on which three months…
内国法人である普通法人又は協同組合等の設立の日の属する事業年度 同日以後三月を経過した日と当該事業年度終了の日とのうちいずれか早い日
Open this provision(Application for Approval to File a Blue Return)
the business year containing the day on which a corporation in the public interest, etc. or an association or foundation without juridical personality, which is a domestic corporation…
内国法人である公益法人等又は人格のない社団等の新たに収益事業を開始した日の属する事業年度 同日以後三月を経過した日と当該事業年度終了の日とのうちいずれか早い日
Open this provision(Application for Approval to File a Blue Return)
the business year containing the day specified in each of the following in accordance with the category of corporation listed therein: The earlier day of either the day on which three months have…
次に掲げる法人の区分に応じそれぞれ次に定める日の属する事業年度 同日以後三月を経過した日と当該事業年度終了の日とのうちいずれか早い日
Open this provision(Application for Approval to File a Blue Return)
in the case where the period from the following days to the last day of the business years prescribed in the preceding three items is less than three months…
内国法人である普通法人若しくは協同組合等の設立の日、内国法人である公益法人等若しくは人格のない社団等の新たに収益事業を開始した日又は前号イ若しくはロに掲げる法人の区分に応じそれぞれ同号イ若しくはロに定める日(以下この号において「設立等の日」という。)から前三号に規定する事業年度終了の日までの期間が三月に満たない場合に…
Open this provisiondomestic corporation
「内国法人」
A corporation whose head office or principal office is in Japan.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (iii)· applies throughout the law
public service corporation
「公共法人」
A corporation listed in Appended Table 1 (別表第一) — local governments (地方公共団体), national university corporations (国立大学法人), local incorporated administrative agencies (地方独立行政法人) and the other public bodies it names — which Article 4, paragraph (2) frees from any obligation to pay corporation tax.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (v)· applies throughout the law
public interest corporation, etc.machine translation
「公益法人等」
A corporation listed in Appended Table 2 (別表第二) of this Act — among them general incorporated associations and foundations that are non-profit corporations (非営利型法人), social medical care corporations (社会医療法人), school corporations (学校法人) and the other bodies it names.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (vi)· applies throughout the law
cooperative, etc.machine translation
「協同組合等」
A corporation listed in Appended Table 3 (別表第三) — among them fishery cooperatives (漁業協同組合), consumer cooperatives (消費生活協同組合), shinkin banks (信用金庫), forest owners' cooperatives (森林組合), their federations and the other bodies it names.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (vii)· applies throughout the law
association or foundation without juridical personality
「人格のない社団等」
An association or foundation that is not a legal person but has a set representative or manager, which this Act treats as a corporation.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (viii)· applies throughout the law
ordinary corporation
「普通法人」
A corporation other than a public corporation (公共法人), a public interest corporation, etc. (公益法人等) or a cooperative, etc. (協同組合等) — the bodies Article 2, items (v) to (vii) list in Appended Tables 1 to 3 — not counting an association or foundation without juridical personality (人格のない社団等).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (ix)· applies throughout the law
profit-making business
「収益事業」
A profit-making business as defined in Article 2, item (xiii) of the Corporation Tax Act: a sales, manufacturing or other business set by Cabinet Order (政令) that is carried on continuously from a place of business.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xiii)· applies throughout the law
business yearmachine translation
「事業年度」
In this Act, the period that is the unit for calculating a corporation's assets and profits and losses — its accounting period (会計期間) set by law or by its articles of incorporation or similar rules (定款等), or, where none is set, the period it notified to the district tax office, the one the office designated or the one Article 13, paragraph (4) provides — divided into one-year periods from its first day where it is longer than a year.
Defined inArticle 13, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
date of establishment, etc.machine translation
「設立等の日」
In Article 122(2)(iv), the day an ordinary corporation (普通法人) or cooperative (協同組合等) that is a domestic corporation was established, the day a public interest corporation (公益法人等) or an association or foundation without juridical personality (人格のない社団等) that is a domestic corporation newly began a profit-making business (収益事業), or, for a corporation listed in item (iii)(a) or (b), the day those provisions set.
Short name set inArticle 122, paragraph (2), item (iv)· applies only in this item
district director
税務署長
The head of a tax office (税務署), the local office of the National Tax Agency that deals with taxpayers in its district (Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Finance, Article 24). It is the office a person usually deals with: an income tax return is filed with a district director (Income Tax Act, Article 120, paragraph (1)), and reassessments, determinations and the collection of national tax are done by the district director for the taxpayer's current place for tax payment (Act on General Rules for National Taxes, Articles 30 and 43). A person who objects to what a district director has decided can ask that director to look at it again (再調査の請求) or go straight to the National Tax Tribunal (Article 75, paragraph (1), item (i)) — unless the notice of the decision says officials of a Regional Taxation Bureau or of the National Tax Agency investigated, in which case it counts as the regional commissioner's decision, with the same choice, or as the Commissioner of the National Tax Agency's, which can only be challenged by a request for review to the Commissioner (Article 75, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Finance, Art. 24, Act on General Rules for National Taxes, Arts. 30, 43, 75 and Income Tax Act, Art. 120 as a reference.