If a Blue-Return-filing Resident running a business that is meant to generate business income has established rules for severance packages as prescribed by Cabinet Order, the amount that the Resident transfers to the severance package reserves account in any year to cover severance packages that are paid to employees of the business (other than a spouse or other relative whose living expenses are paid from the same resources as the Resident; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) upon their separation from employment is included in the necessary expenses that are used to calculate the Resident's business income for the year, up to the amount calculated pursuant to Cabinet Order based on the amount of any increase that is found to have arisen in the year in the estimated amount that the Resident would have to pay in severance packages if all employees of the business that the Resident employs as of December 31 of that year (or as of the time of Resident's death, if the Resident dies partway through the year) were to resign of their own accord.
青色申告書を提出する居住者で事業所得を生ずべき事業を営むもののうち、政令で定める退職給与規程を定めているものが、その事業に係る使用人（その居住者と生計を一にする配偶者その他の親族を除く。以下この条において同じ。）の退職により支給する退職給与に充てるため、各年において退職給与引当金勘定に繰り入れた金額については、当該金額のうち、その年十二月三十一日（その居住者が年の中途において死亡した場合には、その死亡の時）において在職するその事業に係る使用人の全員が自己の都合により退職するものと仮定して計算した場合に退職給与として支給されるべき金額の見積額のうちその年において増加したと認められる部分の金額を基礎として政令で定めるところにより計算した金額に達するまでの金額は、その居住者のその年分の事業所得の金額の計算上、必要経費に算入する。
A Resident holding monies under a severance package reserves account (but only amounts of monies included in the necessary expenses that are used to calculate business income for the year in which that amount is transferred into the account pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph; this excludes any monies that it has already been established must be withdrawn pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) must withdraw the monies under the severance package reserves account if an employee as referred to in the preceding paragraph separates from employment, if approval to file a Blue Return is rescinded, or in any other case prescribed by Cabinet Order.
An amount of monies under a severance package reserves account which it has been established must be withdrawn pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is included in the gross revenue that is used to calculate the amount of business income for the year in which the day it was established that the amount was to have been withdrawn falls; and any amount of monies under a severance package reserves account which is withdrawn even though it does not fall under the provisions of that paragraph is included in the gross revenue that is used to calculate business income for the year in which the day it is withdrawn falls.
The provisions of paragraph (1) apply only if a Tax Return gives the details of the inclusion of the amount transferred into the severance package reserves account in necessary expenses.
Even if a Tax Return is filed that is not filled out as referred to in the preceding paragraph, the district tax office director may apply the provisions of paragraph (1) on finding there to be unavoidable circumstances for the Resident's failure to fill out the Tax Return in that manner.
Beyond what is prescribed in paragraph (2) to the preceding paragraph, Cabinet Order provides for the handling of amounts of monies under severance package reserves accounts following the death of the Resident holding them and for other necessary particulars concerning the application of the provisions of paragraph (1).
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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
Tax Return
「確定申告書」
A final tax return filed under Part II, Chapter V, Section 2, Subsections 1 and 2 of this Act (including by nonresidents under Article 166), including one filed after the deadline.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xxxvii)· applies throughout the law
Blue Return
「青色申告書」
A final tax return, or an amended return to it, filed on the blue form by a person approved under Article 143 to do so.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xl)· applies throughout the law
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.