If a taxpayer (excluding a taxpayer from whom municipal inhabitant tax is collected by the method of special collection; the same applies hereinafter in this Subsection) or a special collection agent has not paid in full the local government levies relating to municipal inhabitant tax by the due date for payment (where a reassessment or determination has been made under Article 321-11 or Article 328-9, meaning the due date for payment of the shortfall tax amount or the shortfall amount, and where the due date for payment has been extended, the extended due date for payment; the same applies hereinafter to municipal inhabitant 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.
For local government levies relating to municipal inhabitant tax for which collection has been deferred under Article 15-4, paragraph (1), notwithstanding the main clause of the preceding paragraph, a demand letter may be issued only if they have not been paid in full within the period of the deferral of collection.
A municipality in special circumstances may, by the Municipal Ordinance of that municipality, provide for a period different from the period prescribed in paragraph (1).
特別の事情がある市町村においては、当該市町村の条例で第一項に規定する期間と異なる期間を定めることができる。
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tax collection officialmachine translation
「徴税吏員」
A prefectural governor (道府県知事) or a prefectural employee the governor has delegated, or a mayor of a municipality (市町村長) or a municipal employee the mayor has delegated.
Defined inArticle 1, paragraph (1), item (iii)· applies throughout the law
special collectionmachine translation
「特別徴収」
The method of collecting a local tax by having a person who is well placed to collect it do so and pay in the tax collected (Article 1, paragraph 1, item 9).
Defined inArticle 1, paragraph (1), item (ix)· applies throughout the law
special collection agentmachine translation
「特別徴収義務者」
A person obliged to collect a local tax by special collection (特別徴収) and pay it in (Article 1, paragraph 1, item 10).
Defined inArticle 1, paragraph (1), item (x)· applies throughout the law
local government leviesmachine translation
「地方団体の徴収金」
A local tax (地方税) together with its demand fee (督促手数料), delinquency charge (延滞金), additional charge for understatement (過少申告加算金), additional charge for failure to file (不申告加算金), substantial additional charge (重加算金) and delinquent disposition costs (滞納処分費).
Defined inArticle 1, paragraph (1), item (xiv)· applies throughout the law
Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance
条例
A rule a local government makes for itself: a prefecture (都道府県), a city, town or village (市町村), or one of Tokyo's special wards (特別区) (Local Autonomy Act, Articles 1-3, 281 and 283). Its assembly (議会), whose members the residents elect, passes it (Articles 89 and 96, paragraph (1), item (i)), and its head — the governor or the mayor (Article 139) — promulgates it, that is, makes it public so that it can take effect (Article 16). The Constitution lets local governments make them within the limits of Acts (Constitution, Article 94), and one may not go against the national laws and regulations (法令), such as Acts, Cabinet Orders (政令) and Ministerial Orders (省令) (Local Autonomy Act, Article 14, paragraph (1)). Unless national laws and regulations provide otherwise, a local government can impose a duty or restrict a right only by one of these (Article 14, paragraph (2)), and it may write into one penalties for breaking it, within limits the Local Autonomy Act sets (Article 14, paragraph (3)). It is made for that local government's own affairs (Article 2, paragraph (2) and Article 14, paragraph (1)), so the same matter can be handled differently from one place to the next. It is a local rule, not a national one: an "ordinance" in the name of a national rule, such as an Ordinance for Enforcement of an Act, is usually a Ministerial Order (省令) or another national instrument.
Written by AI using Constitution, Art. 94 and Local Autonomy Act, Arts. 1-3, 2, 14, 16, 89, 96, 139, 281, 283 as a reference.