A person who, without justifiable grounds, fails to file a return under Article 120, paragraph (1) (Filing an Income Tax Return), Article 125, paragraph (1) (Filing a Tax Return If the Taxpayer Has Died Partway Through the Year), Article 127, paragraph (1) (Filing a Tax Return in the Case of Absence From Japan Partway Through the Year), Article 151-4, paragraph (1) or (2) (Special Provisions on Amended Returns Where the Acquisition Cost of Securities or Other Assets Acquired by Inheritance Has Changed and Similar Cases), Article 151-5, paragraph (1) (Special Provisions on Returns Filed after the Deadline and Similar Returns Where an Estate Has Been Divided or Similar Events Have Occurred), or Article 151-6, paragraph (1) (Special Provisions on Amended Returns Where an Estate Has Been Divided or Similar Events Have Occurred) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 166 (Filing of Returns, Payment of Taxes, and Issuance of Refunds)), or Article 172, paragraph (1) (Filing of Returns Where Salaries or Other Wages Are Not Subject to Withholding) by the Filing Deadline is punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen; provided, however, that the punishment may be waived depending on the circumstances.
正当な理由がなくて第百二十条第一項（確定所得申告）、第百二十五条第一項（年の中途で死亡した場合の確定申告）、第百二十七条第一項（年の中途で出国をする場合の確定申告）、第百五十一条の四第一項若しくは第二項（相続により取得した有価証券等の取得費の額に変更があつた場合等の修正申告の特例）、第百五十一条の五第一項（遺産分割等があつた場合の期限後申告等の特例）若しくは第百五十一条の六第一項（遺産分割等があつた場合の修正申告の特例）（これらの規定を第百六十六条（申告、納付及び還付）において準用する場合を含む。）又は第百七十二条第一項（給与等につき源泉徴収を受けない場合の申告）の規定による申告書をその提出期限までに提出しなかつた者は、一年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。ただし、情状により、その刑を免除することができる。
Absence From Japanmachine translation
「出国」
For a resident, ceasing to have a domicile or residence in Japan without first giving notice of a tax agent (納税管理人) under Article 117, paragraph (2) of the Act on General Rules for National Taxes; for a nonresident, ceasing without that notice to have a residence in Japan or, if they had none, ceasing to have a permanent establishment in Japan or ending the business described in Article 161, paragraph (1), item (vi).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xlii)· applies throughout the law
withholding
「源泉徴収」
Collecting income tax at source when making a payment and paying it over to the government, under Part IV, Chapters I to VI of this Act.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xlv)· applies throughout the law
fine
罰金
A criminal punishment of paying money to the state, of 10,000 yen or more, or less where it is reduced (Penal Code, Article 15). It ranks below imprisonment (拘禁刑) and above penal detention (拘留) and a petty fine (科料) (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). A person who cannot pay it in full is held in a workhouse (労役場) for one day to two years, or up to three years where fines are imposed together, a period set when the sentence is passed (Article 18, paragraphs (1), (3) and (4)); not within thirty days of the sentence becoming final without the person's consent (paragraph (5)). If it is not enforced for three years after the sentence becomes final, the person is released from it by prescription (Articles 31 and 32, item (v)); the three years do not run while its execution is suspended under law or the person is abroad, and an act of execution interrupts them (Articles 33 and 34, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 15, 18, 31 to 34 as a reference.
imprisonment
拘禁刑
The punishment of being held in a penal institution (刑事施設), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years (Penal Code, Article 12, paragraphs (1) and (2)); a fixed term can be raised to thirty years where the punishment is aggravated, or cut below one month where it is reduced (Article 14, paragraph (2)). To help the person reform and rehabilitate, they may be made to do work or given guidance (Article 12, paragraph (3)). It ranks below the death penalty and above a fine (罰金) among the principal punishments (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). It replaced imprisonment with work (懲役) and imprisonment without work (禁錮) when the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) came into force (Act No. 67 of 2022, Article 2), and a person sentenced to either is treated, for the rules on a person's qualifications, as sentenced to imprisonment for the same term (Act No. 68 of 2022, Article 443, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 12, 14, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Art. 443 as a reference.