Article 173Restrictions on Revocation of Decisions to Sell Real Property, etc.
第百七十三条（不動産の売却決定等の取消の制限）
Where an appeal concerning a delinquent tax collection procedure is made on the ground that there is a defect in a disposition listed in Article 171, paragraph (1), item (iii) (Special Provisions on Time Limits for Appeals Concerning Public Auctions, etc.), if the disposition is unlawful but the case falls under any of the following, the district director, the regional commissioner, the director-general of a customs house, or the President of the National Tax Tribunal may dismiss the appeal:
第百七十一条第一項第三号（公売等に関する不服申立ての期限の特例）に掲げる処分に欠陥があることを理由として滞納処分に関する不服申立てがあつた場合において、その処分は違法ではあるが、次に掲げる場合に該当するときは、税務署長、国税局長若しくは税関長又は国税不服審判所長は、その不服申立てを棄却することができる。
where a disposition to be carried out following the disposition concerned in the appeal (hereinafter in this item referred to as a "subsequent disposition") has already been carried out, the unlawfulness of the disposition concerned in the appeal is minor, and it is found inappropriate to let it affect the subsequent disposition; or
その不服申立てに係る処分に続いて行われるべき処分（以下この号において「後行処分」という。）が既に行われている場合において、その不服申立てに係る処分の違法が軽微なものであり、その後行処分に影響を及ぼさせることが適当でないと認められるとき。
where the property realized is being used for public purposes or in any other case in which revoking the disposition concerned in the appeal would cause a serious obstruction to the public interest, and it is found that revoking the disposition would still not be compatible with the public welfare even after taking into consideration the degree of damage suffered by the person who made the appeal, the degree and method of compensation for that damage, and all other circumstances.
換価した財産が公共の用に供されている場合その他その不服申立てに係る処分を取り消すことにより公の利益に著しい障害を生ずる場合で、その不服申立てをした者の受ける損害の程度、その損害の賠償の程度及び方法その他一切の事情を考慮してもなおその処分を取り消すことが公共の福祉に適合しないと認められるとき。
A decision or ruling dismissing an appeal under the provisions of the preceding paragraph must clearly state that the disposition is unlawful and the reasons for dismissing the appeal.
前項の規定による不服申立てについての棄却の決定又は裁決には、処分が違法であること及び不服申立てを棄却する理由を明示しなければならない。
The provisions of paragraph (1) do not preclude a claim for damages against the State.
第一項の規定は、国に対する損害賠償の請求を妨げない。
subsequent dispositionmachine translation
「後行処分」
In Article 173, paragraph 1, item 1, a disposition that is to follow the disposition under appeal (不服申立て); where it has already been made and the appealed disposition's illegality is minor and should not be allowed to affect it, the appeal may be dismissed even though that disposition was illegal.
Short name set inArticle 173, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies only in this item
director-general of a customs house
税関長
The head of a customs house (税関), a local office of the Ministry of Finance (Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Finance, Article 12, paragraph (1)). A customs house collects customs duties and controls imported and exported goods (Article 16, paragraph (1), with Article 4, paragraph (1), items 25 and 26), and it also levies and collects the internal taxes (内国税, taxes other than customs duties, such as consumption tax) that a law puts in its hands (Article 16, paragraph (1), item (iv)). For consumption tax that means taxable goods (課税貨物) taken out of a bonded area (保税地域, a zone where imported goods are held before customs clearance): unless another law or a treaty exempts them, the person taking them out files the return with the director-general of a customs house, not with a tax office (Consumption Tax Act, Article 47, paragraphs (1) and (2)), and where the customs authorities fix the tax themselves, that director-general collects it when the goods are taken out (Article 50, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Finance, Arts. 4, 12, 16 and Consumption Tax Act, Arts. 47, 50 as a reference.
damages
損害賠償
Compensation for loss one person has caused another. A debtor who does not perform an obligation as it should be performed, or cannot perform it, must compensate the creditor for the loss that results, unless the failure comes from a cause the debtor is not responsible for, judged by the contract or other source of the obligation and by accepted views in dealings (Civil Code, Article 415, paragraph (1)); and a person who, intentionally or negligently, infringes another's rights or legally protected interests must compensate for the loss that results (Article 709). It is paid in money unless otherwise agreed (Articles 417 and 722, paragraph (1)), and the parties to a contract may agree in advance the amount due if it is not performed; a sum fixed for breach (違約金) is presumed to be such an agreement (Article 420, paragraphs (1) and (3)). The Consumer Contract Act makes void the part of such an amount in a consumer contract, for its cancellation, with any penalty added, above the average loss the business would suffer from the cancellation of consumer contracts of that kind, measured separately for each category the clause sets, such as the reason for and time of cancellation (Consumer Contract Act, Article 9, paragraph (1), item (i)).
Written by AI using Civil Code, Arts. 415, 417, 420, 709, 722 and Consumer Contract Act, Art. 9 as a reference.
district director
税務署長
The head of a tax office (税務署), the local office of the National Tax Agency that deals with taxpayers in its district (Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Finance, Article 24). It is the office a person usually deals with: an income tax return is filed with a district director (Income Tax Act, Article 120, paragraph (1)), and reassessments, determinations and the collection of national tax are done by the district director for the taxpayer's current place for tax payment (Act on General Rules for National Taxes, Articles 30 and 43). A person who objects to what a district director has decided can ask that director to look at it again (再調査の請求) or go straight to the National Tax Tribunal (Article 75, paragraph (1), item (i)) — unless the notice of the decision says officials of a Regional Taxation Bureau or of the National Tax Agency investigated, in which case it counts as the regional commissioner's decision, with the same choice, or as the Commissioner of the National Tax Agency's, which can only be challenged by a request for review to the Commissioner (Article 75, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Finance, Art. 24, Act on General Rules for National Taxes, Arts. 30, 43, 75 and Income Tax Act, Art. 120 as a reference.
regional commissioner
国税局長
The head of a regional taxation bureau (国税局), the National Tax Agency's regional office, which oversees the tax offices of its region (Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Finance, Articles 23 and 24). Collection can be taken over from a district director (Act on General Rules for National Taxes, Article 43, paragraph (3)), and a person who objects to what a regional commissioner has decided can ask the commissioner to look at it again (再調査の請求) or go straight to the National Tax Tribunal (Article 75, paragraph (1), item (i)).
Written by AI using Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Finance, Arts. 23, 24 and Act on General Rules for National Taxes, Arts. 43, 75 as a reference.