Local Tax Act

In the case falling under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, if a taxpayer conceals or disguises all or part of the facts that are to be the basis for calculating the amount of the tax base, and submits a return or the written request for reassessment prescribed in Article 20-9-3, paragraph (3) (referred to as the "written request for reassessment" in the following paragraph) based on the facts so concealed or disguised, the mayor of the municipality must, as provided by Cabinet Order, collect, in lieu of the amount of additional charge for understatement prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, an amount of substantial additional charge equivalent to the amount calculated by multiplying the tax deficiency resulting from the reassessment that is to be the basis for that calculation by a rate of 35 percent.

In the case falling under paragraph (2) of the preceding Article (excluding the case where the proviso to that paragraph applies), if a taxpayer conceals or disguises all or part of the facts that are to be the basis for calculating the amount of the tax base, and, based on the facts so concealed or disguised, does not submit a return by the deadline for filing the return, or submits a return after the deadline for filing the return or submits a written request for reassessment, the mayor of the municipality must, in lieu of the amount of additional charge for failure to file prescribed in that paragraph, collect an amount of substantial additional charge equivalent to the amount calculated by multiplying the tax amount that is to be the basis for that calculation by a rate of 40 percent.

In the case falling under the preceding two paragraphs, if any of the following items (item (i) in the case falling under paragraph (1)) applies, the amount of substantial additional charge prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs is, notwithstanding those provisions, to be the amount obtained by adding, to the amount calculated under those provisions, the amount calculated by multiplying, by a rate of 10 percent, the tax deficiency resulting from the reassessment that is to be the basis for calculation prescribed in paragraph (1) in the case falling under paragraph (1), or the tax amount that is to be the basis for calculation prescribed in the preceding paragraph in the case falling under the preceding paragraph, respectively.

where, during the period up to the day five years before the day preceding the day on which, based on the concealed or disguised facts that are to be the basis for calculating the amount of the tax base prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs, the return was filed after the deadline for filing the return, or a reassessment or determination under Article 533, paragraphs (1) through (3) was made, an additional charge for failure to file, etc. has been collected with respect to the mineral product tax;

where a specified additional charge for failure to file, etc. has been collected with respect to the mineral product tax for which tax liability arose in the year preceding, and the year before the year preceding, the year containing the day on which tax liability arose for the mineral product tax relating to the return filed after the deadline for filing the return, or the reassessment or determination under Article 533, paragraphs (1) through (3), or where it is found that a determination should be made regarding a specified additional charge for failure to file, etc.

In the case falling under the preceding two paragraphs, if there are grounds prescribed in paragraph (6) of the preceding Article with respect to the submission of the return, the mayor of the municipality does not collect the amount of substantial additional charge calculated on the basis of the tax amount relating to that return.

When the mayor of the municipality has determined the amount of substantial additional charge to be collected under paragraph (1) or (2), the mayor must, without delay, notify the taxpayer.

If a taxpayer does not pay in full the local government levies relating to the mineral product tax by the due date for payment (where a reassessment or determination has been made, the due date for payment of the tax deficiency; the same applies hereinafter with respect to the mineral product tax), a municipal tax collection official must issue a demand letter within 20 days after the due date for payment; provided, however, that this does not apply in the case of advance collection.

A municipality with special circumstances may specify, by Municipal Ordinance of the municipality, a period different from the period prescribed in the preceding paragraph.

When a municipal tax collection official has issued a demand letter, the official may collect a fee as provided by the Municipal Ordinance of that municipality.

If a person delinquent in payment of the mineral product tax falls under any one of the following items, a municipal tax collection official must seize the property of the person delinquent in payment with respect to the local government levies relating to that mineral product tax:

if the person delinquent in payment has received a demand and has not paid in full the local government levies relating to the mineral product tax subject to that demand by the day on which 10 days have elapsed, counting from the date on which the demand letter was issued;

if the person delinquent in payment has not paid in full the local government levies relating to the mineral product tax by the due date for payment specified by the notice concerning advance collection.

When the preceding paragraph is applied to a secondary taxpayer or guarantor, the term "demand letter" in item (i) of that paragraph is to read "written reminder to pay".

If, after the due date for payment of the local government levies relating to the mineral product tax and by the day on which the 10 days prescribed in paragraph (1), item (i) have elapsed, a fact falling under any one of the items of Article 13-2, paragraph (1) has arisen with respect to a person delinquent in payment who has received a demand, a municipal tax collection official may seize that person's property immediately.

If a compulsory liquidation procedure has been carried out with respect to the property of a person delinquent in payment, a municipal tax collection official must make a request for share distribution to the enforcement agency (in the case of a request for share distribution of local government levies relating to the mineral product tax for a claim set forth in Article 114, item (i) of the Bankruptcy Act, the court handling the bankruptcy case relating to that request for share distribution) with respect to the delinquent local government levies relating to the mineral product tax.

In a case where the municipal tax collection official may effect seizure under paragraphs (1) through (3), if property of the person delinquent in payment that is listed in the items of Article 86, paragraph (1) of the National Tax Collection Act has already been seized in a delinquent tax collection procedure for local government levies of another local government or for national taxes, or in a disposition following the example of such a delinquent tax collection procedure, a request for share distribution with respect to that property may be made by participatory seizure.

Delinquent tax collection procedures for the local government levies relating to the mineral product tax, including those provided for in the preceding paragraphs, are carried out in accordance with the rules for the delinquent tax collection procedure prescribed in the National Tax Collection Act.

A disposition under the preceding paragraphs may also be carried out outside the area of the municipality concerned.

If a taxpayer of the mineral product tax, with the purpose of evading the execution of delinquent tax collection procedures, conceals or damages the taxpayer's property, disposes of it to the detriment of the municipality, or commits an act of falsely increasing the burdens on that property, or alters its existing condition and thereby diminishes the value of that property or commits an act of increasing the expenses for the delinquent tax collection procedure relating to it, that person is to be punished by imprisonment for not more than three years or a fine of not more than 2,500,000 yen, or both.

The same applies where a third party in possession of the property of a taxpayer commits an act referred to in the preceding paragraph for the purpose of enabling the taxpayer to evade the execution of a delinquent tax collection procedure.

If a person, knowing the circumstances, becomes the counterparty of the taxpayer or of the third party in possession of the property in an act referred to in the preceding two paragraphs, the person who committed the violation as the counterparty is to be punished by imprisonment for not more than two years or a fine of not more than 1,500,000 yen, or both.

If a representative of a corporation, or an agent, employee or other worker of a corporation or a person, commits a violation prescribed in the preceding three paragraphs in connection with the business or property of that corporation or person, then in addition to punishing the offender, the fine prescribed in the relevant paragraphs is imposed on that corporation or person.

In a case that falls under any of the following items, the person who committed the violation is to be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen:

if, in the case referred to in Article 541, paragraph (6), the person fails to answer or makes a false statement in response to a question by a municipal tax collection official conducted in accordance with the provisions of Article 141 of the National Tax Collection Act;

if, in the case referred to in Article 541, paragraph (6), the person refuses, obstructs or evades an inspection by a municipal tax collection official, conducted in accordance with the provisions of Article 141 of the National Tax Collection Act, of books and documents (meaning the books and documents prescribed in that Article; the same applies in the following item) or other articles;

if, in the case referred to in Article 541, paragraph (6), the person, without justifiable grounds, fails to comply with a request by a municipal tax collection official for the presentation or submission of articles, made in accordance with the provisions of Article 141 of the National Tax Collection Act, or presents or submits books and documents or other articles (including copies thereof) containing false entries or records.

Where a representative of a corporation, or an agent, employee or other worker of a corporation or person, has committed a violation set forth in the preceding paragraph in connection with the business or property of that corporation or person, in addition to punishing the offender, the fine prescribed in that paragraph is to be imposed on that corporation or person.

In the case referred to in Article 541, paragraph (6), a person who makes a false statement to the mayor of the municipality on a matter to be stated in accordance with the provisions of Article 99-2 of the National Tax Collection Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 109, paragraph (4) of that Act) is to be punished by imprisonment for not more than six months or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen.