Article 33Secondary Tax Liability of Members of General Partnership Companies, etc.
第三十三条(合名会社等の社員の第二次納税義務)
Where a general partnership company or limited partnership company, or a certified public tax accountant corporation, attorney corporation, foreign law solicitor corporation, attorney-foreign law solicitor joint corporation, audit corporation, patent attorney corporation, judicial scrivener corporation, administrative scrivener corporation, social and labour insurance consultant corporation, or land and buildings investigator corporation is delinquent in national tax, and it is found that the amount to be collected will still be insufficient even if delinquent tax collection procedures are executed against its property, its members (in the case of a limited partnership company and an audit corporation, members with unlimited liability) bear secondary tax liability for the national tax relating to that delinquency. In this case, those members are jointly and severally liable.
合名会社若しくは合資会社又は税理士法人、弁護士法人、外国法事務弁護士法人、弁護士・外国法事務弁護士共同法人、監査法人、弁理士法人、司法書士法人、行政書士法人、社会保険労務士法人若しくは土地家屋調査士法人が国税を滞納した場合において、その財産につき滞納処分を執行してもなおその徴収すべき額に不足すると認められるときは、その社員(合資会社及び監査法人にあつては、無限責任社員)は、その滞納に係る国税の第二次納税義務を負う。この場合において、その社員は、連帯してその責めに任ずる。
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「国税」
A tax imposed by the national government, other than customs duty, tonnage tax, special tonnage tax, the forest environment tax and the special corporate business tax.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies throughout the law