Article 685Procedures for Special Collection of Municipal Non-statutory Ordinary Taxes
第六百八十五条(市町村法定外普通税の特別徴収の手続)
Where a municipal non-statutory ordinary tax is to be collected by special collection, a person in a convenient position to collect that municipal non-statutory ordinary tax must be designated as a special collection agent by the Municipal Ordinance of the municipality and made to collect it.
The special collection agent referred to in the preceding paragraph bears the obligation to submit to the mayor of the municipality, by the due date for payment of that municipal non-statutory ordinary tax, a remittance return stating the tax base amount and tax amount relating to the municipal non-statutory ordinary tax to be collected and other matters specified by that Ordinance, and to remit the remittance to the municipality.
With respect to the portion of the remittance remitted under the preceding paragraph that corresponds to tax which the taxpayer of the municipal non-statutory ordinary tax has not paid to the special collection agent, the special collection agent has a right to reimbursement against that taxpayer.
Where a special collection agent has brought an action based on the right to reimbursement under the preceding paragraph, a municipal tax collection official must provide evidence and other necessary assistance, except in relation to official secrets.
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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
remittancemachine translation
「納入金」
Local tax that a special collector (特別徴収義務者) collects and must pay in to the local government.
Defined inArticle 1, paragraph (1), item (xii)· applies throughout the law
municipal non-statutory ordinary taxmachine translation
「市町村法定外普通税」
An ordinary tax (普通税) that a municipality levies under Article 5, paragraph 3 by setting up a tax of its own beyond those the Local Tax Act lists.
Short name set inArticle 10-4, paragraph (2)
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.