Capital gains means income arising from a transfer of assets (including the establishment of a superficies right or a right of lease to allow another person to own a building or structure, or an act provided for by Cabinet Order which gives another person long-term use of a piece of land pursuant to a contract; hereinafter the same applies in this Article).
譲渡所得とは、資産の譲渡（建物又は構築物の所有を目的とする地上権又は賃借権の設定その他契約により他人に土地を長期間使用させる行為で政令で定めるものを含む。以下この条において同じ。）による所得をいう。
The following income is not included in capital gains:
次に掲げる所得は、譲渡所得に含まれないものとする。
income arising from a transfer of Inventory (including anything that Cabinet Order prescribes as assets equivalent thereto) or from a person's continuous transfer of other assets on a commercial basis;
たな卸資産（これに準ずる資産として政令で定めるものを含む。）の譲渡その他営利を目的として継続的に行なわれる資産の譲渡による所得
income arising from the felling of trees in forested land or a transfer of forested land, beyond that which falls under the preceding item.
前号に該当するもののほか、山林の伐採又は譲渡による所得
Capital gains is the amount arrived at by first treating each of the following items separately as regards the income set forth therein and calculating the sum total of the acquisition costs of assets generating the income set forth in the item plus the cost to transfer those assets, subtracting this sum from gross revenues constituting the income set forth in that item in the year, adding together the net balances from those calculations (or, if gross revenues constituting the income set forth in either one of the following items alone is less than the sum total of the acquisition costs of the assets generating that income and the cost to transfer those assets, offsetting the net balance calculated for the income set forth in the other item by an amount equivalent to the negative balance; hereinafter such an amount is referred to as "net gain" in this Article), then applying the special capital gains deduction against the net gain:
譲渡所得の金額は、次の各号に掲げる所得につき、それぞれその年中の当該所得に係る総収入金額から当該所得の基因となつた資産の取得費及びその資産の譲渡に要した費用の額の合計額を控除し、その残額の合計額（当該各号のうちいずれかの号に掲げる所得に係る総収入金額が当該所得の基因となつた資産の取得費及びその資産の譲渡に要した費用の額の合計額に満たない場合には、その不足額に相当する金額を他の号に掲げる所得に係る残額から控除した金額。以下この条において「譲渡益」という。）から譲渡所得の特別控除額を控除した金額とする。
income arising from a transfer of assets (other than a transfer falling under the provisions of the preceding paragraph; the same applies in the following item) that was made within five years after the date of the acquisition thereof (other than income prescribed by Cabinet Order);
income arising from a transfer of assets, other than income as set forth in the preceding item.
資産の譲渡による所得で前号に掲げる所得以外のもの
The special capital gain deduction provided for in the preceding paragraph is 500,000 yen (or the net gain, if this is less than 500,000 yen).
When a special capital gain deduction as prescribed in paragraph (3) is applied against a net gain pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, the deduction is first applied against the part of the net gain that comes from income set forth in item (i) of that paragraph.