Article 159Refunding Taxes Withheld, Based on Reassessment or Similar Decision
第百五十九条（更正等による源泉徴収税額等の還付）
If a Reassessment (including a determination or ruling on an appeal, or a judgment in a lawsuit, concerning a disposition or similar action with respect to the income tax (meaning a disposition on a request for Reassessment or a determination under Article 25 (Determination) of the Act on General Rules for National Taxes); hereinafter referred to as a "Reassessment or similar decision" in this Article and the following Article) is made with respect to a Resident's income taxes for any year, and the amount set forth in Article 122, paragraph (1), item (i) or item (ii) (Filing a Return to Receive a Refund) or Article 123, paragraph (2), item (vi) or item (vii) (Filing Tax Returns Showing Losses) increases as a result of the Reassessment or similar decision, the district director refunds to the Resident income taxes in an amount equivalent to the increase.
居住者の各年分の所得税につき更正（当該所得税についての処分等（更正の請求に対する処分又は国税通則法第二十五条（決定）の規定による決定をいう。）に係る不服申立て又は訴えについての決定若しくは裁決又は判決を含む。以下この条及び次条において「更正等」という。）があつた場合において、その更正等により第百二十二条第一項第一号若しくは第二号（還付等を受けるための申告）又は第百二十三条第二項第六号若しくは第七号（確定損失申告）に掲げる金額が増加したときは、税務署長は、その者に対し、その増加した部分の金額に相当する所得税を還付する。
In a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, if any part of the taxes withheld as prescribed in Article 122, paragraph (1), item (ii) or Article 123, paragraph (2), item (vii) which is used as the basis for calculating the amount of the refund under that paragraph has not yet been paid over to the national government, an amount equivalent to the part of the refund under the preceding paragraph which is from tax withheld that has not yet been paid over is not refunded until that part of the tax withheld is paid over.
前項の場合において、同項の規定による還付金の額の計算の基礎となつた第百二十二条第一項第二号又は第百二十三条第二項第七号に規定する源泉徴収税額のうちにまだ納付されていないものがあるときは、前項の規定による還付金の額のうちその納付されていない部分の金額に相当する金額については、その納付があるまでは、還付しない。
When the amount of interest on 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 the day on which one month has elapsed from the day after the date of the Reassessment or similar decision referred to in paragraph (1) (or, if the Reassessment or similar decision is one set forth in one of the following items, the date specified in the relevant item; hereinafter referred to as the "one-month date" in this paragraph) (or beginning on the day after the date of payment, for a refund involving tax withheld as prescribed in the preceding paragraph that is paid after the one-month 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):
a Reassessment based on a request for Reassessment (including a determination or ruling on an appeal, or a judgment in a lawsuit, concerning a disposition on that request; hereinafter the same applies in this item): the day on which three months have elapsed from the day after the date of the request or the day on which one month has elapsed from the day after the date of the Reassessment based on the request, whichever comes first;
a Reassessment in connection with a determination under Article 25 of the Act on General Rules for National Taxes (including a determination or ruling on an appeal, or a judgment in a lawsuit, concerning that determination, and excluding a Reassessment based on a request for Reassessment and a Reassessment made on the grounds that the economic results produced by a void act included in the facts that served as the basis for calculating the gross income, retirement income, and timber income for the year have been lost because the act is void, that a voidable act included in those facts has been rescinded, or any other grounds specified by Cabinet Order as equivalent thereto): the date of the determination.
国税通則法第二十五条の規定による決定に係る更正（当該決定に係る不服申立て又は訴えについての決定若しくは裁決又は判決を含み、更正の請求に基づく更正及びその年分の総所得金額、退職所得金額及び山林所得金額の計算の基礎となつた事実のうちに含まれていた無効な行為により生じた経済的成果がその行為の無効であることに基因して失われたこと、当該事実のうちに含まれていた取り消しうべき行為が取り消されたことその他これらに準ずる政令で定める理由に基づき行われた更正を除く。） 当該決定の日
If a refund under paragraph (1) is Appropriated to cover unpaid income taxes for the year of the Reassessment or similar decision referred to in that paragraph, interest on refund 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.
Beyond what is prescribed in the preceding three paragraphs, Cabinet Order provides for the method of making an Appropriation of a refund under paragraph (1) (including the interest on refund on that refund) and for other necessary particulars concerning the application of the provisions of that paragraph.
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Resident
「居住者」
An individual who has a domicile in Japan, or who has had a residence in Japan continuously for one year or more up to now.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (iii)· applies throughout the law
Reassessment
「更正」
A reassessment under Article 24 or, where the tax office corrects its own earlier reassessment or determination, Article 26 of the Act on General Rules for National Taxes, by which the district tax office director (税務署長) corrects the tax base or tax declared after an investigation.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xliii)· 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
request for Reassessmentmachine translation
「更正の請求」
A request to the tax office director (税務署長) under Article 23, paragraph (1) of the Act on General Rules for National Taxes, by a person who has filed a tax return, to reassess (更正) the tax base or tax amount it stated, because an error or a failure to follow the tax laws made the tax payable too high, or a net loss or refund too low or left it out.
Short name set inArticle 153, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Articles 153-2 to 153-6, 159 and 160
Reassessment or similar decisionmachine translation
「更正等」
A reassessment of a resident's income tax, including a decision, ruling or court judgment on an appeal or lawsuit against a response to a request for reassessment or against a determination of tax.
Short name set inArticle 159, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article and in Article 160
one-month datemachine translation
「一月経過日」
The day one month after the day following the reassessment or other decision in Article 159, paragraph (1) (or, for certain kinds of decision, the day set for them); interest on the refund (還付加算金) is counted from the day after it.
Short name set inArticle 159, paragraph (3)· applies only in this paragraph
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.
rescission
取消し
Undoing a legal act, such as an offer or acceptance of a contract (意思表示, a manifestation of intention), that the law says may be rescinded: for example one made through an important mistake, though a mistake about the circumstances behind the act only if it had been made clear that they were its basis, and as a rule not where the person was grossly careless (Civil Code, Article 95), or one made under fraud or duress, though fraud by a third party only if the other party knew of it or could have known (Article 96), or one a minor made without the consent of their legal representative (Article 5, paragraph (2)). Once rescinded, the act is treated as void from the start (Article 121). Only the person who made it, their representative or successor, or someone whose consent it needed may rescind it (Article 120). The right is lost if not used within five years from when the act could be confirmed — once the mistake, fraud or other cause has ended and the person knows they can rescind (Article 124) — or twenty years from the act (Article 126). It is lost sooner if the person confirms the act, and once it could be confirmed, performing it or demanding performance without reserving objections counts as confirming it (Articles 122 and 125). The Consumer Contract Act adds grounds of its own, such as a business telling the consumer something untrue about an important matter when soliciting the contract, where the consumer believed it and made the contract because of it (Article 4, paragraph (1), item (i)), and gives most of them a shorter time: one year from when the act could be confirmed, and five years from the contract (Article 7, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Civil Code, Arts. 5, 95, 96, 120, 121, 122, 124, 125, 126 and Consumer Contract Act, Arts. 4, 7 as a reference.
void
無効
Having no legal effect from the start. A void act does not take effect even if the parties later confirm it; confirming it knowing it is void counts as making a new act (Civil Code, Article 119). An act against public order or good morals is void (Article 90). Some Acts that protect one side make void a term that takes that protection away: a term of a land lease that is worse for the tenant than the Act on Land and Building Leases' rules on how long the lease lasts and how it is renewed (Article 9), a clause of a consumer contract that frees a business from all liability for damage its failure to perform causes the consumer (Consumer Contract Act, Article 8, paragraph (1), item (i)), or the part of a labor contract that falls short of the Labor Standards Act's standards, which the Act's standard replaces (Labor Standards Act, Article 13).
Written by AI using Civil Code, Arts. 90, 119, Act on Land and Building Leases, Art. 9, Consumer Contract Act, Art. 8 and Labor Standards Act, Art. 13 as a reference.