Article 34Secondary Tax Liability of Liquidators, etc.

①Where a corporation has been dissolved and has distributed or delivered its residual property without paying the national tax that is to be imposed on it or that it is to pay, only where it is found that the amount to be collected will still be insufficient even if delinquent tax collection procedures are executed against that corporation, the liquidators and the persons who received the distribution or delivery of the residual property (excluding persons subject to the application of the provisions of the preceding Article; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) bear secondary tax liability for the national tax relating to that delinquency; provided, however, that a liquidator is liable to the extent of the value of the property distributed or delivered, and a person who received the distribution or delivery of the residual property is liable to the extent of the value of the property received.

②Where a trust prescribed in Article 175 (Grounds for Commencement of Liquidation) of the Trust Act (Act No. 108 of 2006) has terminated and the liquidating trustee for that trust (meaning the liquidating trustee prescribed in Article 177 (Duties of Liquidating Trustee) of that Act; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) has provided property belonging to the trust property to residual property beneficiaries, etc. (meaning the residual property beneficiaries, etc. prescribed in Article 182, paragraph (2) (Vesting of Residual Property) of that Act; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) without paying the national tax that is to be imposed on that liquidating trustee or that the liquidating trustee is to pay (limited to national tax for which the obligation to pay constitutes an obligation borne by the trust property (meaning the obligation borne by the trust property prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (9) (Definitions) of that Act); the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph), only where it is found that the amount to be collected will still be insufficient even if delinquent tax collection procedures are executed against that liquidating trustee, the liquidating trustee (limited to a liquidating trustee who bears responsibility for performing the obligation to pay that national tax solely with property belonging to the trust property; hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "specified liquidating trustee") and the residual property beneficiaries, etc. bear secondary tax liability for the national tax relating to that delinquency; provided, however, that the specified liquidating trustee is liable to the extent of the value of the property provided, and the residual property beneficiaries, etc. are liable to the extent of the value of the property received.