If the locality for paying over taxes under the provisions of Article 15 (Locality for Paying Over Taxes) or Article 16 (Special Provisions on the Locality for Paying Over Taxes) is found to be inappropriate as the locality for paying over income taxes in view of the taxpayer's income circumstances, the regional commissioner for that locality (or the Commissioner of the National Tax Agency, in a case specified by Cabinet Order; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) may designate the locality for paying over the income taxes, notwithstanding those provisions.
Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding Article, if the locality for paying over taxes as under the preceding Article is found to be inappropriate as the locality for the person to pay over the income taxes referred to in that Article in view of clerical considerations attending payment by the person paying the salary or other wage as prescribed in that Article or other circumstances, the regional commissioner for the locality in which the person is to pay over the taxes may designate the locality for the person to pay over the income taxes.
When the regional commissioner has designated the locality for paying over income taxes pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the regional commissioner notifies the taxpayer or the person making the payment prescribed in those provisions of this in writing.
国税局長は、前二項の規定により所得税の納税地を指定したときは、これらの規定に規定する納税義務者又は支払をする者に対し、書面によりその旨を通知する。
Commissioner of the National Tax Agency
国税庁長官
The head of the National Tax Agency (国税庁), the agency within the Ministry of Finance that assesses and collects national taxes (Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Finance, Articles 18 and 19). The Commissioner issues circulars (通達) setting out how the tax laws are read, and the National Tax Tribunal must tell the Commissioner beforehand when it will decide a case on a different reading (Act on General Rules for National Taxes, Article 99, paragraph (1)). An objection to a decision the Commissioner made is a request for review to the Commissioner (Article 75, paragraph (1), item (ii)).
Written by AI using Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Finance, Arts. 18, 19 and Act on General Rules for National Taxes, Arts. 75, 99 as a reference.
regional commissioner
国税局長
The head of a regional taxation bureau (国税局), the National Tax Agency's regional office, which oversees the tax offices of its region (Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Finance, Articles 23 and 24). Collection can be taken over from a district director (Act on General Rules for National Taxes, Article 43, paragraph (3)), and a person who objects to what a regional commissioner has decided can ask the commissioner 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)).
Written by AI using Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Finance, Arts. 23, 24 and Act on General Rules for National Taxes, Arts. 43, 75 as a reference.