If a Tax Return is filed which indicates an amount set forth in Article 122, paragraph (1), item (iii) (Filing a Return to Receive a Refund) or Article 123, paragraph (2), item (viii) (Filing Tax Returns Showing Losses), the district director refunds the part of the prepaid taxes prescribed in those provisions which is equivalent to that amount (hereinafter referred to in this Article as "prepaid taxes") to the person filing the return.
確定申告書の提出があつた場合において、当該申告書に第百二十二条第一項第三号（還付等を受けるための申告）又は第百二十三条第二項第八号（確定損失申告）に掲げる金額の記載があるときは、税務署長は、当該申告書を提出した者に対し、当該金額に相当するこれらの規定に規定する予納税額（以下この条において「予納税額」という。）を還付する。
If the district tax office director issues a refund under the preceding paragraph and the taxpayer has paid a tax on delinquency in respect of prepaid taxes in the year of the Tax Return referred to in that paragraph, the director also refunds the amount calculated pursuant to Cabinet Order as the part of the tax on delinquency which was for the prepaid taxes that are being refunded pursuant to that paragraph.
When the amount of Interest on a refund under paragraph (1) is calculated, the period referred to in Article 58, paragraph (1) (Interest on Refunds) of the Act on General Rules for National Taxes which serves as the basis for the calculation is the period beginning on the day after that on which prepaid taxes that are required to be refunded pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) are paid (or beginning on the day after the payment due date, if the prepaid taxes are paid prior to the payment due date) and ending on the day on which the tax-office decision to pay the refund is reached or on the day on which the refund is Appropriated to cover a required tax payment (or ending on the day on which the refund first could have been Appropriated, if this is before the date of the Appropriation); provided, however, that if a Tax Return as referred to in that paragraph is filed after the Filing Deadline, none of the days from the day after the Filing Deadline up to the day on which the Tax Return is filed are included as part of that period.
If a refund under paragraph (1) is Appropriated to cover unpaid income taxes for a year in which prepaid taxes are used as the basis for calculating the amount of the refund, Refund Interest does not accrue on the part of the refund so Appropriated and the tax on delinquency is waived for the part of the income taxes covered by the Appropriation.
Interest does not accrue on a refund under the provisions of paragraph (2).
Beyond what is prescribed in the preceding three paragraphs, Cabinet Order provides for procedures for issuing a refund as referred to in paragraph (1) or paragraph (2), the way of Appropriating a refund under paragraph (1) (and Interest thereon) and other necessary particulars concerning the application of the provisions of that paragraph or paragraph (2).
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Tax Return
「確定申告書」
A final tax return filed under Part II, Chapter V, Section 2, Subsections 1 and 2 of this Act (including by nonresidents under Article 166), including one filed after the deadline.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xxxvii)· applies throughout the law
Filing Deadlinemachine translation
「確定申告期限」
The deadline for filing a final tax return under Article 120, paragraph (1), or, where the person dies or leaves Japan during the year, the deadline under Article 125, paragraph (1) or Article 127, paragraph (1).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xli)· applies throughout the law
Appropriation
「充当」
Using a refund owed to a taxpayer to pay other national tax they owe instead, under Article 57, paragraph (1) of the Act on General Rules for National Taxes.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xlvii)· applies throughout the law, except in Articles 190 and 191
interest on refundmachine translation
「還付加算金」
Interest added to a tax refund, as defined in Article 58, paragraph (1) of the Act on General Rules for National Taxes.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xlviii)· applies throughout the law
prepaid taxesmachine translation
「予納税額」
Income tax already paid in advance for the year — the tax prepayments and similar amounts listed in Article 120, paragraph (2) — that a final return shows as more than the year's tax uses up, which the district tax office director (税務署長) refunds to the person who filed it.
Short name set inArticle 139, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article
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.