Article 71-20Offenses Relating to Delinquent Tax Collection Procedures for the Interest Levy
第七十一条の二十（利子割に係る滞納処分に関する罪）
If a special collection agent for the interest levy, for the purpose of evading the execution of a delinquent tax collection procedure, conceals or damages property, disposes of it to the detriment of the prefecture, falsely increases the encumbrances on the property, or alters its current state and thereby reduces the value of the property or increases the expenses for the delinquent tax collection procedure, that person is to be punished by imprisonment for not more than three years or a fine of not more than 2,500,000 yen, or both.
利子割の特別徴収義務者が滞納処分の執行を免れる目的でその財産を隠蔽し、損壊し、若しくは道府県の不利益に処分し、その財産に係る負担を偽つて増加する行為をし、又はその現状を改変して、その財産の価額を減損し、若しくはその滞納処分に係る滞納処分費を増大させる行為をしたときは、その者は、三年以下の拘禁刑若しくは二百五十万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。
The same applies where a third party in possession of the property of a special collection agent commits an act referred to in the preceding paragraph for the purpose of enabling the special collection agent to evade the execution of a delinquent tax collection procedure.
If a person, knowing the circumstances, becomes the counterparty of the special collection agent or of the third party in possession of the property in an act referred to in the preceding two paragraphs, the person who committed the violation as the counterparty is to be punished by imprisonment for not more than two years or a fine of not more than 1,500,000 yen, or both.
If the representative of a corporation, or an agent, employee or other worker of a corporation or individual, has committed a violation referred to in the preceding three paragraphs in connection with the business or property of that corporation or individual, in addition to punishing the offender, the fine prescribed in the relevant paragraph is to be imposed on that corporation or individual.
法人の代表者又は法人若しくは人の代理人、使用人その他の従業者が、その法人又は人の業務又は財産に関して前三項の違反行為をした場合には、その行為者を罰するほか、その法人又は人に対し、当該各項の罰金刑を科する。
When the preceding paragraph applies to an association or foundation that is not a corporation and has a designated representative or administrator, that representative or administrator represents that association or foundation that is not a corporation and has a designated representative or administrator in its procedural acts, and in addition, the provisions of laws and regulations on criminal proceedings in the case where a corporation is the defendant or suspect apply mutatis mutandis.
法人でない社団又は財団で代表者又は管理人の定めのあるものについて前項の規定の適用がある場合には、その代表者又は管理人がその訴訟行為につき当該法人でない社団又は財団で代表者又は管理人の定めのあるものを代表するほか、法人を被告人又は被疑者とする場合の刑事訴訟に関する法律の規定を準用する。
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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
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.