Where a person fails to remit all or part of the remittance relating to bathing tax that is to be collected and remitted pursuant to Article 701-4, paragraph (2), the person who committed the violation is to be punished by imprisonment for not more than five years or a fine of not more than 1,000,000 yen, or both.
第七百一条の四第二項の規定により徴収して納入すべき入湯税に係る納入金の全部又は一部を納入しなかつたときは、その違反行為をした者は、五年以下の拘禁刑若しくは百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。
Where the amount not remitted as referred to in the preceding paragraph exceeds 1,000,000 yen, the amount of the fine referred to in that paragraph may, depending on the circumstances and notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph, be an amount exceeding 1,000,000 yen and not more than an amount equivalent to the amount not remitted.
Where the representative of a corporation, or the agent, employee or other worker of a corporation or person, has committed a violation referred to in paragraph (1) in connection with the business of that corporation or person, the fine prescribed in that paragraph is also imposed on that corporation or person, in addition to punishing the offender.
In the case where a fine is imposed on a corporation or individual for a violation referred to in paragraph (1) under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the period of prescription is the same as that for the offense referred to in paragraph (1).
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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
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.