Moves to Article 21-2, paragraph (1) on (Act No. 2 of 2026)
A person who is or was engaged in affairs relating to an investigation concerning local taxes (including an investigation for the hearing of a case relating to an appeal and an investigation of a criminal tax case concerning local taxes) or an investigation for the provision of information conducted under the provisions of the Act on Special Provisions of the Income Tax Act, the Corporation Tax Act and the Local Tax Act Incidental to Enforcement of Tax Treaties, etc. (Act No. 46 of 1969), or in affairs relating to the collection of local taxes, is, where the person divulges or misappropriates a secret learned in connection with those affairs, to be punished by imprisonment for not more than two years or a fine of not more than 1,000,000 yen.
地方税に関する調査（不服申立てに係る事件の審理のための調査及び地方税の犯則事件の調査を含む。）若しくは租税条約等の実施に伴う所得税法、法人税法及び地方税法の特例等に関する法律（昭和四十四年法律第四十六号）の規定に基づいて行う情報の提供のための調査に関する事務又は地方税の徴収に関する事務に従事している者又は従事していた者は、これらの事務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らし、又は窃用した場合においては、二年以下の拘禁刑又は百万円以下の罰金に処する。
local taxmachine translation
「地方税」
A prefectural tax or a municipal tax, as Article 1(1)(iv) of the Local Tax Act defines local tax.
Defined inArticle 1, paragraph (1), item (iv)· 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.