Where bathing tax is to be collected by special collection, the operator of a bath or another person in a position convenient for collection must be designated as a special collection agent by the Municipal Ordinance of the municipality concerned and made to collect the tax.
The special collection agent referred to in the preceding paragraph is obliged to submit to the municipality, by the due date for payment specified by the Municipal Ordinance of the municipality concerned, a remittance return stating the tax base amount and tax amount relating to the bathing tax that the agent is to collect and other matters specified by Ordinance, and to remit the remittance to that municipality.
With respect to the portion of the remittance remitted pursuant to the preceding paragraph that corresponds to tax that the taxpayer for bathing 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 on the right to reimbursement referred to in the preceding paragraph, a municipal tax collection official must provide evidence and other necessary assistance, except where it concerns 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
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.