Article 231Paper-Based Payment Slips for Salary and Other Wages, Severance Pay and Other Such Compensation, and Public Pensions and Retirement Packages
第二百三十一条（給与等、退職手当等又は公的年金等の支払明細書）
A person paying, in Japan, a salary or other wage, severance pay or other such compensation, or a public pension or retirement package to a Resident must issue a paper-based payment slip indicating the amount of the salary or other wage, severance pay or other such compensation, or public pension or retirement package and giving other necessary information to the person being paid, pursuant to Ministry of Finance Order.
In lieu of issuing a paper-based payment slip for a salary or other wage, severance pay or other such compensation, or public pension or retirement package under the preceding paragraph, the person paying the salary or other wage, severance pay or other such compensation, or public pension or retirement package referred to in that paragraph may provide the person being paid the salary or other wage, severance pay or other such compensation, or public pension or retirement package with the information that is required to be given in the paper-based payment slip by electronic or magnetic means, with the consent of that person and pursuant to Cabinet Order; provided, however, that at the request of the person being paid, the person doing the paying must issue a paper-based payment slip for the salary or other wage, severance pay or other such compensation, or public pension or retirement package thereto.
In a case as referred to in the main clause of the preceding paragraph, the person paying the salary or other wage, severance pay or other such compensation, or public pension or retirement package referred to that paragraph is deemed to have issued paper-based payment slip for the salary or other wage, severance pay or other such compensation, or public pension or retirement package referred to in paragraph (1).
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in Japan
「国内」
The area in which this Act is in force, that is, Japan.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies throughout the law
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
electronic or magnetic means
「電磁的方法」
A way of using an electronic data processing system or other information and communications technology, of a kind a Ministry of Finance Order (財務省令) specifies.
Defined inArticle 225, paragraph (3)· applies only in this provision and in Article 226, paragraph (4); Article 231, paragraph (2); and Article 242
salary or other wage
「給与等」
Salaries, wages, allowances paid to Diet members, bonuses and other payments of the same nature, as described in Article 28, paragraph (1) on salary income; some provisions leave out salary from which no tax need be withheld.
Short name set inArticle 226, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter
severance pay or other such compensation
「退職手当等」
Retirement allowances, lump-sum pensions and other payments received all at once on retirement, and payments of the same nature, as described in Article 30, paragraph (1) on retirement income; some provisions leave out those from which no tax need be withheld.
Short name set inArticle 226, paragraph (2)· applies only in this chapter
public pension or retirement package
「公的年金等」
The pensions listed in Article 35, paragraph (3): public pensions under the national pension and similar schemes, pensions paid by former employers, and defined-benefit corporate pensions and similar.
Short name set inArticle 226, paragraph (3)· applies only in this chapter