Act on General Rules for National Taxes

The purpose of this Act is to establish basic and common matters concerning national taxes, to put in order the systematic structure of the tax laws, and to clarify the legal relationships concerning national taxes, as well as to ensure the fair operation of tax administration, and thereby to contribute to the proper and smooth performance of the people's tax liability.

In this Act, the meanings of the terms set forth in the following items are as prescribed respectively in those items:

An association or foundation that is not a corporation and for which a representative or administrator has been designated (hereinafter referred to as an "association or foundation without legal personality") is deemed to be a corporation, and the provisions of this Act apply to it.

Where other national tax laws contain special provisions on a matter prescribed in this Act, those provisions govern.

①If an inheritance (including a testamentary gift by universal title; the same applies hereinafter) occurs, the heir (including a universal legatee; the same applies hereinafter) or the corporation referred to in Article 951 (Formation of a Corporation of Inherited Property) of the Civil Code (Act No. 89 of 1896) succeeds to the obligation to pay the national tax (including the expenses for the delinquent tax collection procedure therefor; the same applies hereinafter, except in the following Chapter, Chapter III, Section 1 (Payment of National Tax), Chapter VI (Accessory Tax), Chapter VII, Section 1 (Period Limitations on Reassessment, Determination, and Related Actions for National Tax), Chapter VII-2 (Examination of National Tax), and Chapter XI (Investigation and Disposition of Criminal Tax Cases)) that should be imposed on the decedent (including a person who made a testamentary gift by universal title; the same applies hereinafter), or that the decedent should pay or that should be collected from the decedent. In this case, if the heir has made a qualified acceptance, that heir is liable to pay the national tax only to the extent of the property acquired through the inheritance.

②In the case referred to in the first sentence of the preceding paragraph, if there are two or more heirs, the amount of national tax to which each heir succeeds pursuant to the provisions of the first sentence of that paragraph is the amount calculated by apportioning the amount of national tax referred to in that paragraph according to that heir's share in inheritance under the provisions of Articles 900 through 902 (Statutory Shares in Inheritance; Shares in Inheritance of Heirs by Representation; Designation of Shares in Inheritance by Will) of the Civil Code.

③In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if any of the heirs has acquired through the inheritance property whose value exceeds the amount of national tax calculated pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, that heir is liable to pay the national tax to which the other heirs succeed pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, up to the amount of that excess value.

If corporations merge, the corporation surviving the merger or the corporation incorporated through the merger succeeds to the obligation to pay the national tax that should be imposed on the corporation that ceased to exist due to the merger (hereinafter referred to as the "merged corporation"), or that the merged corporation should pay or that should be collected from the merged corporation.

If a corporation comprehensively succeeds to the rights and obligations belonging to the property of an association or foundation without legal personality, that corporation succeeds to the obligation to pay the national tax that should be imposed on the association or foundation without legal personality, or that the association or foundation without legal personality should pay or that should be collected from it (if the succession covers only part of those rights and obligations, national tax in the amount calculated by multiplying the amount of that national tax by the proportion of the property of the association or foundation without legal personality at the time of the succession that the property succeeded to by the corporation represents).

①If the duties of a trustee have ended due to any of the grounds set forth in the items of Article 56, paragraph (1) (Grounds for Termination of the Trustee's Duties) of the Trust Act (Act No. 108 of 2006) and a new trustee (hereinafter referred to as the "new trustee" in this paragraph and paragraph (6)) has assumed office, the new trustee succeeds to the obligation to pay the national tax that should be imposed on that trustee, or that the trustee should pay or that should be collected from the trustee (limited to national tax for which the obligation to pay constitutes an obligation covered by the trust property (meaning an obligation covered by the trust property as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (9) (Definitions) of that Act; the same applies in Article 38, paragraph (1) (Advance Demand) and Article 57, paragraph (1) (Appropriation)); hereinafter the same applies in this Article).

②In a trust with two or more trustees, if the duties of one of them have ended due to any of the grounds set forth in the items of Article 56, paragraph (1) of the Trust Act, then, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the trustee among the other trustees who has taken over the administration of trust affairs from the trustee whose duties have ended (hereinafter referred to as the "trustee whose duties have ended" in this paragraph and paragraph (5)) succeeds to the obligation to pay the national tax that should be imposed on the trustee whose duties have ended, or that the trustee whose duties have ended should pay or that should be collected from that trustee.

③If the duties of a trustee have ended due to the ground set forth in Article 56, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Trust Act, the corporation prescribed in Article 74, paragraph (1) (Vesting of Trust Property Where the Trustee's Duties Have Ended Due to the Trustee's Death) of that Act succeeds to the obligation to pay the national tax that should be imposed on that trustee, or that the trustee should pay or that should be collected from the trustee.

④If a corporation that is a trustee has effected a company split, the corporation that has succeeded to the rights and obligations as trustee through the split succeeds to the obligation to pay the national tax that should be imposed on the corporation that is the trustee that effected the split, or that that corporation should pay or that should be collected from it.

⑤Even if the obligation to pay national tax has been succeeded to pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2), the trustee referred to in paragraph (1) or the trustee whose duties have ended is liable to perform the obligation to pay the national tax so succeeded to with its own property; provided, however, that this does not apply if, pursuant to Article 21, paragraph (2) (Scope of Obligations Covered by the Trust Property) of the Trust Act, it is liable to perform the obligation to pay that national tax only with property that belongs to the trust property.

⑥If the new trustee has succeeded to the obligation to pay national tax pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), it is liable to perform the obligation to pay the national tax so succeeded to only with property that belongs to the trust property.

The provisions of Articles 436, 437 and 441 through 445 (Effect of Joint and Several Obligations, etc.) of the Civil Code apply mutatis mutandis to the obligation to jointly and severally pay national tax under the provisions of national tax laws.

The taxpayers are jointly and severally obligated to pay national tax on jointly owned property, a joint business, or property belonging to that business.

If a judgment invalidating a merger or a company split (hereinafter referred to as a "merger, etc." in this Article) has become final and binding, the corporation that effected the merger, etc. is jointly and severally obligated to pay the national tax (including its accessory tax) of the corporation surviving the merger, the corporation incorporated through the merger, or the corporation that succeeded to a business through the split, for which the tax liability (meaning the tax liability prescribed in Article 15, paragraph (1) (Establishment of Tax Liability and Determination of the Payable Tax Amount); the same applies in the following Article) was established on or after the date of the merger, etc.

If a corporation has effected a company split (excluding a split-off type company split as prescribed in Article 2, item (xii)-10 (Definitions) of the Corporation Tax Act; hereinafter the same applies in this Article), the corporation that succeeded to a business through the split is jointly and severally liable for payment of the following national taxes of the corporation that effected the split (including their accessory tax, and excluding those for which the obligation to pay has been succeeded to by a corporation that succeeded to the rights and obligations as trustee pursuant to Article 7-2, paragraph (4) (Succession to the Obligation to Pay National Tax Pertaining to a Trust) and those for which the obligation to pay constitutes an obligation covered only by the trust property (meaning an obligation covered only by the trust property as prescribed in Article 154 (Scope of Obligations Covered by the Trust Property of a Trust after a Consolidation of Trusts) of the Trust Act; the same applies in Article 57, paragraph (1) (Appropriation))); provided, however, that this liability is limited to the value of the property succeeded to from the corporation that effected the split (excluding property belonging to the trust property succeeded to from the corporation that effected the split):

①Periods prescribed in days, months or years in national tax laws are computed as follows:

②If a time limit prescribed in national tax laws for filing a return, application, request or notification or submitting any other document, giving notice, making payment or collecting (excluding a time limit prescribed by the hour and any other time limit specified by Cabinet Order) falls on a Sunday, a holiday prescribed in the Act on National Holidays (Act No. 178 of 1948) or any other general holiday, or a day specified by Cabinet Order, the day following that day is deemed to be the time limit.

If the Commissioner of the National Tax Agency, the President of the National Tax Tribunal, a regional commissioner, a district director or the director-general of a customs house finds that an act cannot be performed by the time limit for filing a return, application, request or notification or submitting any other document, making payment or collecting under national tax laws due to a disaster or any other unavoidable reason, they may, pursuant to Cabinet Order, extend that time limit by no more than two months from the day on which that reason ceased to exist.

①Documents issued by a district director or the head of any other administrative organ, or by its officials, under the provisions of national tax laws are served at the domicile or residence (including an office or place of business; the same applies hereinafter) of the person to be served, by service by mail or by correspondence delivery as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Act on Correspondence Delivery by Private Business Operators (Act No. 99 of 2002) provided by a general correspondence delivery business operator as prescribed in paragraph (6) (Definitions) of that Article or a specified correspondence delivery business operator as prescribed in paragraph (9) of that Article (hereinafter referred to as "correspondence delivery"), or by service by delivery; provided, however, that if the person to be served has a tax agent, they are served at the domicile or residence of the tax agent.

②If a document prescribed in the preceding paragraph has been sent by mail or correspondence delivery handled in the ordinary manner, the mail or the item of correspondence delivery as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) (Definitions) of the Act on Correspondence Delivery by Private Business Operators (hereinafter referred to as an "item of correspondence delivery") is presumed to have been served at the time at which it would ordinarily have arrived.

③In the case prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the district director or the head of any other administrative organ must prepare and keep a record sufficient to confirm the title of the document, the name of the person to be served (or, in the case referred to in the proviso to paragraph (1), the tax agent; the same applies hereinafter in this Section) (or, for a corporation, its name; the same applies in Article 14, paragraph (2) (Service by Public Notice)), the address, and the date of dispatch.

④Service by delivery is effected by an official of the relevant administrative organ delivering the document to the person to be served at the place where it is to be served pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1); provided, however, that if the person has no objection, the document may be delivered at another place.

⑤In a case set forth in one of the following items, service by delivery may be effected by the act set forth in that item in lieu of delivery under the provisions of the preceding paragraph:

①If an inheritance has occurred and there are two or more heirs, those heirs may designate from among themselves a representative to receive documents concerning the national tax of the decedent that are issued by a district director or the head of any other administrative organ (including a National Tax Tribunal judge) under the provisions of national tax laws (excluding documents concerning a delinquent tax collection procedure (including a disposition conducted in accordance with the rules for that procedure)). In this case, the heir so designated must notify that district director or head of any other administrative organ (or, for documents issued by a National Tax Tribunal judge, the President of the National Tax Tribunal) to that effect.

②In the case referred to in the first sentence of the preceding paragraph, if the name of any of the heirs is unknown and the notification referred to in the second sentence of that paragraph is not made within a reasonable period, the district director or the head of any other administrative organ referred to in the second sentence of that paragraph may designate one of the heirs and make that heir the representative prescribed in that paragraph. In this case, the district director or the head of any other administrative organ that made the designation must notify the heir so designated to that effect.

③Beyond what is provided for in the preceding two paragraphs, necessary matters concerning the designation of the representative prescribed in paragraph (1) are specified by Cabinet Order.

④A disposition under national tax laws requiring the service of a document that was made, with regard to the national tax of a decedent, in the name of the decedent after the decedent's death without knowledge of that death is deemed to have been made against all heirs with regard to that national tax if the document has been served on one of the heirs.

①With regard to a document to be served pursuant to the provisions of Article 12 (Service of Documents), if the domicile and residence of the person to be served are unknown, or if it is found that there are difficulties in effecting service in a foreign country, the district director or the head of any other administrative organ may effect service by public notice in lieu of that service.

②Service by public notice is effected by taking measures to make the information necessary to identify the document to be served, the name of the person to be served and a statement to the effect that the district director or the head of any other administrative organ will deliver the document to the person to be served at any time (hereinafter referred to as the "particulars of the public notice" in this paragraph) available for inspection by an unspecified large number of persons by a method specified by Ministry of Finance Order, and by either posting a document stating the particulars of the public notice on the bulletin board of the relevant administrative organ or taking measures to make the particulars of the public notice, as displayed on the screen of a computer installed at the relevant administrative organ, available for inspection.

③In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the document is deemed to have been served when seven days have elapsed counting from the day on which the measures under that paragraph were commenced.

①When the obligation to pay national tax (or, for national withholding tax, the obligation to collect it and pay it to the national government; hereinafter referred to as "tax liability") is established, the payable tax amount of that national tax is to be determined through the procedures prescribed in national tax laws, except for national tax for which the payable tax amount is determined without any special procedure upon the establishment of that liability.

②Tax liability is established, for the national taxes set forth in the following items (excluding accessory tax in items (i) through (xiii)), at the time specified in each of those items (or, for those national taxes specified by Cabinet Order, at the time specified by Cabinet Order):

③National taxes for which the payable tax amount is determined without any special procedure upon the establishment of the tax liability are the following national taxes:

①The procedure for determining the payable tax amount of national tax is to follow one of the methods set forth in the following items, and the content of those methods is as set forth in those items:

②Which of the methods set forth in the items of the preceding paragraph is used to determine the payable tax amount of national tax (excluding the national taxes set forth in the items of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article) is as follows:

①A taxpayer of national tax using the self-assessment system must submit a tax return to the district director by the statutory tax return due date, as prescribed in national tax laws.

②A tax return filed pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is referred to as a "return filed by the due date."

①A person who should have submitted a return filed by the due date (including a person who was able to submit a return under Article 123, paragraph (1) (Filing Tax Returns Showing Losses), Article 125, paragraph (3) (Filing a Tax Return Showing Losses If the Taxpayer Has Died Partway Through the Year) or Article 127, paragraph (3) (Filing a Tax Return Showing Losses If the Taxpayer Will Become Absent From Japan Partway Through the Year) of the Income Tax Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 166 (Application Mutatis Mutandis to Nonresidents) of that Act) but did not submit that return within the time limit for its submission, and the heirs of those persons or any other person who has succeeded to all of the rights and obligations included in the property of those persons (in the case of a corporate split, limited to the corporation that succeeds to the liability of the split corporation to pay national taxes pursuant to the provisions of Article 7-2, paragraph (4) (Succession to the Obligation to Pay National Tax Pertaining to a Trust))) may submit a tax return to the district director even after the time limit for submission, until a determination is made under the provisions of Article 25 (Determination).

②A tax return submitted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is referred to as a "return filed after the due date."

③A return filed after the due date must state the matters required to be stated in a return filed by the due date for the national tax to which the return pertains, and, if there are documents required to be attached to that return filed by the due date, those documents must be attached to it.

①A person who has submitted a tax return (including their heirs or any other person who has succeeded to all of the rights and obligations included in the property of the person who has submitted (in the case of a corporate split, limited to the corporation that succeeds to the liability of the split corporation to pay national taxes pursuant to the provisions of Article 7-2, paragraph (4) (Succession to Liability to Pay National Taxes Pertaining to Trust)); hereinafter the same applies in Article 23, paragraphs (1) and (2) (Request for Reassessment)) may, if the person falls under any of the following items, file another tax return to amend the tax basis, etc. (meaning the matters listed in Article 2, item (vi) (a) through (c) (Definitions); the same applies hereinafter) or the tax amount, etc. (meaning the matters listed in (d) through (f) of the item; the same applies hereinafter) stated in the initial return, until a reassessment is made of the initial return under the provisions of Article 24 (Reassessment):

②A person who has received a reassessment or determination under the provisions of Articles 24 through 26 (Reassessment and Determination) (including their heirs or any other person who has succeeded to all of the rights and obligations included in the property of the person who has received that reassessment or determination (in the case of a corporate split, limited to the corporation that succeeds to the liability of the split corporation to pay national taxes pursuant to the provisions of Article 7-2, paragraph (4)); the same applies in Article 23, paragraph (2)) may, if the person falls under any of the following items, submit to the district director a tax return to amend the tax basis, etc. or the tax amount, etc. pertaining to that reassessment or determination, until a reassessment of that reassessment or determination is made under the provisions of Article 26:

③A tax return filed pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs is referred to as an "amended return."

④An amended return must state the following matters, and, if there are any documents required to be attached to the return filed by the due date for the national tax to which the amended return pertains, a document stating those of the matters to be stated in such documents that relate to the amended return must be attached to it:

The filing of an amended return that increases the tax amount payable that has already been determined does not affect the tax liability for the part of the national tax pertaining to the tax amount payable already determined.

①A tax return must be filed with the district director of the tax office with jurisdiction over the place for tax payment of the national tax at the time of its filing (hereinafter referred to as the "current place for tax payment" in this Article).

②With regard to a tax return for income tax, corporation tax, local corporation tax, inheritance tax, gift tax, land value tax, consumption tax on the transfer, etc. of a taxable asset, or tax for promotion of power-resources development, if the place for tax payment has changed on or after the time when the taxable period to which the return pertains commenced (for a national tax without a taxable period, the time when its tax liability was established), and the taxpayer has filed the return with the district director of the tax office with jurisdiction over a place for tax payment involved in that change, other than the district director of the tax office with jurisdiction over the current place for tax payment, the district director of the tax office with whom the return was filed may accept the return. In this case, the return is deemed to have been filed with the district director of the tax office with jurisdiction over the current place for tax payment.

③The district director of the tax office who has accepted a tax return referred to in the preceding paragraph must send the return to the district director of the tax office with jurisdiction over the current place for tax payment, and notify the person who filed it to that effect.

④Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), a tax return for consumption tax, etc. on goods received from a bonded area that is subject to the self-assessment system (hereinafter referred to as "self-assessed consumption tax, etc. on imported goods") must be filed with the director-general of the customs house with jurisdiction over the place for tax payment of that consumption tax, etc. In this case, for the purpose of applying the provisions of Articles 17 through 19 (Tax Returns), the term "district director of the tax office" in those provisions is deemed to be replaced with "director-general of the customs house".

If a tax return (including documents required to be attached to the return and any other documents required to be submitted in connection with the filing of the return) or any other document specified by the Commissioner of the National Tax Agency has been submitted by mail or correspondence delivery, it is deemed to have been submitted on the date shown by the date stamp on the mail or item of correspondence delivery (if there is no such indication, or if the indication is not clear, the date found to correspond to it based on the number of days normally required to deliver the mail or item of correspondence delivery).

①A person who has filed a tax return may request that the district director of the tax office reassess the tax basis, etc. or tax amount, etc. stated in the return (if a reassessment of such tax basis, etc. or tax amount, etc. has been carried out under the provisions of the following Article or Article 26 (Reassessment of Previous Reassessment) (hereinafter referred to as a "reassessment" in this Article), the reassessed tax basis, etc. or tax amount, etc.) within five years (10 years, in the case listed in item (ii) where corporation tax is concerned) from the statutory tax return due date for the national tax to which the return pertains if the person falls under any of the following items:

②A person who has filed a tax return or a person who has received a determination under the provisions of Article 25 (Determination) (hereinafter referred to as a "determination" in this paragraph) may, if any of the following items applies (for a person who has filed a tax return, limited to cases where the day on which the period specified in the relevant item expires comes after the day on which the period prescribed in the preceding paragraph expires), notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph, make a request for a reassessment under the provisions of that paragraph (hereinafter referred to as a "request for reassessment") on the grounds that the item applies, within the period specified in that item:

③A person who intends to make a request for reassessment must file with the district director of the tax office a written request for reassessment stating the tax basis, etc. or tax amount, etc. after the reassessment requested, the reasons for the request for reassessment, the details of the circumstances that led to the request, the tax amount payable and the tax amount equivalent to the amount of a refund before the reassessment requested, and other matters that serve as a reference.

④When a request for reassessment has been made, the district director of the tax office examines the tax basis, etc. or tax amount, etc. to which the request pertains, and makes a reassessment or notifies the person who made the request that there are no grounds for a reassessment.

⑤Even if a request for reassessment has been made, the district director of the tax office does not grant a grace period for the collection of the national tax payable to which the request pertains (including the expenses for the delinquent tax collection procedure thereof; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph); provided, however, that if the district director of the tax office finds that there are reasonable grounds, they may grant a grace period for the collection of all or part of that national tax.

⑥Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), a request for reassessment of self-assessed consumption tax, etc. on imported goods is to be made to the director-general of the customs house. In this case, for the purpose of applying the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs, the term "district director of the tax office" in those provisions is deemed to be replaced with "director-general of the customs house".

⑦The provisions of the preceding two Articles apply mutatis mutandis to a request for reassessment.

If a tax return has been filed, and the calculation of the tax basis, etc. or tax amount, etc. stated in the tax return did not conform to the provisions of the national tax laws, or the tax basis, etc. or tax amount, etc. otherwise differs from what the district director of the tax office has found through their examination, the district director of the tax office reassesses the tax basis, etc. or tax amount, etc. pertaining to the return based on that examination.

If a person who is found to be obliged to file a tax return has not filed the return, the district director of the tax office determines the tax basis, etc. and tax amount, etc. pertaining to the return based on their examination; provided, however, that this does not apply if the determination would give rise to no tax amount payable and no tax amount equivalent to the amount of a refund.

If the district director of the tax office becomes aware that the tax basis, etc. or tax amount, etc. reassessed or determined under the provisions of the preceding two Articles or this Article has been overestimated or underestimated, they further reassess such reassessed or determined tax basis, etc. or tax amount, etc. based on their examination thereof.

In the cases referred to in the preceding three Articles, if the relevant officials of the National Tax Agency or a Regional Taxation Bureau have conducted an examination, the district director of the tax office may make a reassessment or determination under those provisions based on the findings of that examination.

①A reassessment or determination under the provisions of Articles 24 through 26 (Reassessment and Determination) (hereinafter referred to as a "reassessment or determination") is made by the district director of the tax office serving a written notice of reassessment or a written notice of determination.

②A written notice of reassessment must state the following matters. In this case, if the reassessment is based on the examination referred to in the preceding Article, a supplementary note to that effect must be added.

③A written notice of determination must state the tax basis, etc. and tax amount, etc. pertaining to the determination. In this case, if the determination is based on the examination referred to in the preceding Article, a supplementary note to that effect must be added.

①A reassessment under the provisions of Article 24 (Reassessment) or Article 26 (Reassessment of Previous Reassessment) (hereinafter referred to as a "reassessment" in the provisions up to Article 72 (Extinctive Prescription of the Right to Collection of National Tax)) that increases the tax amount payable already determined does not affect the tax liability for the part of the national tax pertaining to the tax amount payable already determined.

②A reassessment that decreases the tax amount payable already determined does not affect the tax liability for the part of the national tax other than the part pertaining to the tax amount decreased by the reassessment.

③A disposition or judgment revoking a reassessment or determination does not affect the tax liability for the part of the national tax other than the part pertaining to the tax amount decreased by the disposition or judgment.

①A reassessment or determination is made by the district director of the tax office with jurisdiction over the place for tax payment of the national tax at the time the disposition is made (hereinafter referred to as the "current place for tax payment" in this Article).

②With regard to income tax, corporation tax, local corporation tax, inheritance tax, gift tax, land value tax, consumption tax on the transfer, etc. of a taxable asset, or tax for promotion of power-resources development, if the place for tax payment has changed on or after the time when the taxable period of the national tax commenced (for a national tax without a taxable period, the time when its tax liability was established), and the district director of the tax office with jurisdiction over a place for tax payment involved in that change other than the current place for tax payment (hereinafter referred to as the "former place for tax payment" in this paragraph) is not aware of the change or cannot ascertain the place for tax payment after the change, and there are unavoidable circumstances for not being aware of it or not being able to ascertain it, the district director of the tax office with jurisdiction over the former place for tax payment may, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, make a reassessment or determination of that national tax.

③If, after making a reassessment or determination, the district director of the tax office prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs becomes aware that the reassessment or determination should not have been made because a tax return for the national tax to which the reassessment or determination pertains had already been lawfully filed with another district director of the tax office, or another district director of the tax office had already made a determination, they must revoke the reassessment or determination without delay.

④Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), a reassessment or determination of self-assessed consumption tax, etc. on imported goods is made by the director-general of the customs house with jurisdiction over the place for tax payment of that consumption tax, etc. In this case, for the purpose of applying the provisions of Articles 24 through 26 (Reassessment and Determination) or Article 28 (Procedures for Reassessment or Determination), the term "district director of the tax office" in those provisions is deemed to be replaced with "director-general of the customs house".

①A taxpayer of a national tax subject to the official assessment system must, as provided for in the national tax laws, file a return stating the tax basis of the national tax with the district director of the tax office by the due date for filing it.

②The provisions of Article 21, paragraph (1) (Place for Filing Tax Returns) and Article 22 (Time of Filing of Tax Returns, etc. Sent by Mail, etc.) apply mutatis mutandis to the return referred to in the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as a "tax basis return").

①For a national tax subject to the official assessment system, the district director of the tax office determines, based on their examination, after the due date for filing a tax basis return (for a national tax for which the filing of a tax basis return is not required, after the time when its tax liability is established), in accordance with the following categories of cases, the matters listed in the relevant item:

②If, after making a determination under the provisions of the preceding paragraph or this paragraph, the district director of the tax office becomes aware that the tax basis determined (in the case listed in item (i) of the preceding paragraph, the tax basis stated in the tax basis return referred to in that item) or the tax amount payable has been overestimated or underestimated, they make a determination changing the tax basis and the tax amount payable pertaining to that determination, based on their examination.

③A determination under the provisions of paragraph (1) is made by the district director of the tax office serving a written notice of assessment and determination (in the case listed in paragraph (1), item (i), a written notice of tax payment) stating the tax basis and the tax amount payable pertaining to the determination.

④A determination under the provisions of paragraph (2) is made by the district director of the tax office serving a written notice of assessment and determination stating the following matters:

⑤The provisions of Article 27 (Reassessment or Determination Based on Examination by Officials of the National Tax Agency or National Taxation Bureau), the second sentence of Article 28, paragraph (3) (Matters to be Stated as Supplementary Notes to a Written Notice of Determination) and Article 29 (Effect of Reassessment, etc.) apply mutatis mutandis to a determination made under the provisions of paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) (hereinafter referred to as an "assessment and determination").

①An assessment and determination is made by the district director of the tax office with jurisdiction over the place for tax payment of the national tax at the time of the assessment and determination (hereinafter referred to as the "current place for tax payment" in this Article).

②With regard to the penalty tax prescribed in Article 69 (Tax Items for Penalty Tax) on income tax, corporation tax, local corporation tax, inheritance tax, gift tax, land value tax, consumption tax on the transfer, etc. of a taxable asset, tax for promotion of power-resources development, or international tourist tax to be collected and paid under the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) (Special Collection, etc. by Domestic Business Operators) of the International Tourist Tax Act, if any of the following items applies, the district director of the tax office specified in the relevant item may, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, make an assessment and determination of that penalty tax on the national tax payable as a result of the reassessment or determination, or of the filing of the return filed after the due date or amended return, prescribed in that item, or on national withholding tax:

③Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), an assessment and determination of consumption tax, etc. on goods received from a bonded area that is subject to the official assessment system or any other consumption tax, etc. to be collected by the director-general of the customs house, or of penalty tax for non-payment or of the heavy penalty tax under Article 68, paragraph (3) or (4) (limited to the part concerning the heavy penalty tax under paragraph (3) of that Article) (Heavy Penalty Tax) on international tourist tax to be collected and paid under the provisions of Article 17, paragraph (1) (Special Collection, etc. by Foreign Business Operators) of the International Tourist Tax Act, is made by the director-general of the customs house with jurisdiction over the place for tax payment of those national taxes. In this case, for the purpose of applying the provisions of the preceding two Articles, the term "district director of the tax office" in those provisions is deemed to be replaced with "director-general of the customs house"; the phrase "after the due date for filing a tax basis return (for a national tax for which the filing of a tax basis return is not required, after the time when its tax liability is established), in accordance with the following" in the part of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article other than the items is deemed to be replaced with "in accordance with the following"; and the term "tax amount payable" in paragraph (1), items (ii) and (iii), paragraphs (2) and (3), and paragraph (4), items (i) and (ii) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "tax amount, etc.".

④Where the director-general of the customs house makes an assessment and determination under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if the assessment and determination concerns consumption tax to be collected immediately under the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (3) (Tax Exemption for Transfer of Export Goods at Export Goods Retail Shops) of the Consumption Tax Act, or in any other case specified by Cabinet Order, the director-general may have the relevant official give notice of the assessment and determination orally, in lieu of serving the written notice of assessment and determination or written notice of tax payment under the provisions of paragraph (3) or (4) of the preceding Article as applied following the replacement of terms under the preceding paragraph.

①A person who intends to pay a national tax must pay money equivalent to the tax amount, together with a payment slip (or, if the person has been served with a written notice of tax payment, that written notice of tax payment), to the Bank of Japan (including its agencies that receive national taxes) or to an official of the tax office that receives the national tax; provided, however, that this does not preclude payment by securities as provided for in the Act on Payment of Revenue by Securities (Act No. 10 of 1916), or, where the person has notified the district director of the tax office in advance as provided for by Ministry of Finance Order, payment by a method specified by Ministry of Finance Order (referred to as a "specified payment method" in the following paragraph) (for the payment of motor vehicle tonnage tax (excluding that which is to be collected by the district director of the tax office under the provisions of Article 14 (Collection by District Director of Tax Office) of the Motor Vehicle Tonnage Tax Act (Act No. 89 of 1971)) or registration and license tax (excluding that which is to be collected by the district director of the tax office under the provisions of Article 29 (Collection by District Director of Tax Office) of the Registration and License Tax Act (Act No. 35 of 1967)), payment by the method specified by Ministry of Finance Order prescribed in Article 10-2 (Special Provisions on Payment by Method Using Electronic Data Processing System, etc.) of the Motor Vehicle Tonnage Tax Act or Article 24-2 (Special Provisions on Payment by Method Using Electronic Data Processing System, etc.) of the Registration and License Tax Act).

②If those of the procedures for payment by a specified payment method (limited to a method specified by Ministry of Finance Order as a method using an electronic data processing system) of a national tax (limited to a national tax whose statutory payment due date comes at the same time as its statutory tax return due date (excluding self-assessed consumption tax, etc. on imported goods), and including national withholding tax) that are specified by Ministry of Finance Order have been carried out on the statutory payment due date (limited to cases where the tax amount does not exceed the amount specified by Ministry of Finance Order), and the payment has been made by the date specified by Cabinet Order, the provisions on postponement of tax payment and accessory tax apply by deeming the payment to have been made on the statutory payment due date.

③Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), a national tax required to be paid with revenue stamps is to be paid by affixing revenue stamps equivalent to the tax amount, as provided for in the national tax laws. The same applies where a national tax that may be paid with revenue stamps is paid with revenue stamps.

④Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), a national tax for which permission for payment in kind has been granted may be paid in kind as provided for in the national tax laws.

⑤Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), a person who intends to pay a national tax and has a domicile or residence in an area outside the place of enforcement of this Act (hereinafter referred to as an "overseas taxpayer" in this paragraph) may pay the national tax, as provided for by Ministry of Finance Order, by transferring money equivalent to the tax amount, via a business office, office or any other similar facility of a financial institution (limited to one located in an area outside the place of enforcement of this Act; hereinafter referred to as an "overseas business office, etc." in this paragraph), into a deposit account (limited to one opened for receiving payment of national taxes) of an official of the tax office that receives the national tax. In this case, the provisions on postponement of tax payment, payment in kind and accessory tax apply by deeming the payment of the national tax to have been made on the day on which the overseas taxpayer remitted the money via the overseas business office, etc. of the financial institution.

①If a taxpayer who intends to entrust the financial institution at which the taxpayer holds a deposit account or savings account with the withdrawal of deposits or savings and the payment of a national tax with the money so withdrawn requests the district director of the tax office to give the financial institution notice of the matters necessary for that payment, being a notice specified by Ministry of Finance Order, the district director of the tax office may accept the request only if the payment is found to be certain and accepting the request is found to be advantageous for the collection of national tax.

②If a national tax for which the tax amount payable has been determined by the filing of a return filed by the due date, and whose due date for payment comes at the same time as the due date for filing that return, has been paid based on the notice referred to in the preceding paragraph by the date specified by Cabinet Order, the provisions on postponement of tax payment and delinquent tax apply by deeming the payment to have been made on the due date for payment, even if the day of payment comes after the due date for payment.

①A person who intends to pay a national tax may, if the tax amount does not exceed the amount specified by Ministry of Finance Order and any of the following items applies, entrust the payment to a payment agent (meaning a payment agent prescribed in paragraph (1) of the following Article; the same applies hereinafter in this Article):

②In the cases listed in the following items, the provisions on postponement of tax payment, payment in kind and accessory tax apply by deeming the national tax prescribed in the relevant item to have been paid on the day specified in that item:

①A person that is found to be capable of properly and reliably carrying out affairs concerning the payment of national taxes (hereinafter referred to as "payment affairs" in this paragraph and Article 34-6, paragraph (1) (Obligation of Payment Agent to Retain Books, etc.)), and that the Commissioner of the National Tax Agency designates as a person meeting the requirements specified by Cabinet Order (hereinafter referred to as a "payment agent" in the provisions up to Article 34-6), may carry out payment affairs upon entrustment by a person who intends to pay a national tax.

②When the Commissioner of the National Tax Agency has made a designation under the preceding paragraph, the Commissioner must give public notice of the name, address or location of the office of the payment agent, and other matters specified by Ministry of Finance Order.

③When a payment agent intends to change its name, address or location of its office, it must notify the Commissioner of the National Tax Agency to that effect in advance.

④When a notification under the preceding paragraph has been made, the Commissioner of the National Tax Agency must give public notice of the matters in the notification.

①If any of the following items applies, a payment agent must pay the national tax for which it has been entrusted as prescribed in the relevant item by the date specified by Cabinet Order:

②If any of the following items applies, a payment agent must, without delay and as provided for by Ministry of Finance Order, report to the Commissioner of the National Tax Agency to that effect and the date on which it received the delivery, in the case referred to in item (i), or on which it was entrusted, in the case referred to in item (ii):

③If a payment agent fails to pay in full the national tax referred to in paragraph (1) by the date specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in that paragraph, the district director of the tax office with jurisdiction over the address or the location of the office of the payment agent collects the national tax from the payment agent in accordance with the rules for collection from a guarantor of national tax.

④With regard to a national tax that a payment agent is to pay under the provisions of paragraph (1), the district director of the tax office may not collect the remaining amount from the taxpayer of that national tax unless an amount remains to be collected even after a disposition under the provisions of Article 40 (Delinquent Tax Collection Procedure) has been taken against the payment agent.

①A payment agent must, as provided for by Ministry of Finance Order, keep books, record in them matters concerning payment affairs, and retain them.

②If the Commissioner of the National Tax Agency finds it necessary for enforcing the provisions of the preceding two Articles and this Article, the Commissioner may, to the extent necessary and as provided for by Ministry of Finance Order, have a payment agent make reports.

③If the Commissioner of the National Tax Agency finds it necessary for enforcing the provisions of the preceding two Articles and this Article, the Commissioner may, to the extent necessary, have officials enter the office of a payment agent and inspect the books and documents of the payment agent (including, where an electronic or magnetic record (meaning a record used in computer data processing that is created in electronic form, magnetic form, or any other form that cannot be perceived by the human senses; the same applies hereinafter) has been created or retained in lieu of their creation or retention, that electronic or magnetic record; the same applies hereinafter) and other necessary articles, or question relevant persons.

④An official who conducts an on-site inspection under the preceding paragraph must carry an identification card, and must present it if requested by a relevant person.

⑤The authority prescribed in paragraph (3) must not be construed as having been granted for the purpose of a criminal investigation.

⑥The Commissioner of the National Tax Agency may, as provided for by Cabinet Order, delegate the authority prescribed in paragraph (3) to the regional commissioner of a Regional Taxation Bureau.

①The Commissioner of the National Tax Agency may revoke the designation of a person that has been designated under the provisions of Article 34-4, paragraph (1) (Payment Agent) if the person falls under any of the following items:

②When the Commissioner of the National Tax Agency has revoked a designation under the preceding paragraph, the Commissioner must give public notice to that effect.

①A person who has filed a return filed by the due date must, as provided for in the national tax laws, pay to the State the national tax equivalent to the tax amount stated in the return as the amount payable by filing the return, by its statutory payment due date (for a national tax subject to postponement of tax payment, by the due date for payment under that postponement).

②The taxpayer of a national tax equivalent to any of the amounts listed in the following items must pay the national tax to the State by the day specified in the items (in the case of a national tax for which the due date for payment is otherwise specified by the national tax laws pertaining to the postponement of tax payments and other national taxes, by such due date for payment as specified in the relevant law):

③A person who has received a written notice of assessment and determination concerning penalty tax for understatement, penalty tax for failure to file or heavy penalty tax (limited to the heavy penalty tax under Article 68, paragraph (1), (2) or (4) (limited to the part concerning the heavy penalty tax under paragraph (1) or (2) of that Article) (Heavy Penalty Tax); the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) must pay the penalty tax for understatement, penalty tax for failure to file or heavy penalty tax in the amount stated in the notice by the day on which one month has elapsed from the day following the day on which the notice was given.

①When the district director of the tax office intends to collect any of the following national taxes (excluding the expenses for the delinquent tax collection procedure thereof; the same applies in the following Article) under the provisions of the national tax laws, they must give notice of tax payment:

②The notice of tax payment under the preceding paragraph is given by the district director of the tax office serving, as provided for by Cabinet Order, a written notice of tax payment stating the tax amount payable, the due date for payment and the place of payment; provided, however, that where consumption tax, etc. is to be paid with money provided as security, or in any other case specified by Cabinet Order, the district director may have the relevant official give the notice orally, in lieu of serving the written notice of tax payment.

①Where a taxpayer fails to pay a national tax in full by the due date for payment set forth in Article 35 (Payment of National Tax under Self-Assessment System) or paragraph (2) of the preceding Article (in the case of income tax subject to estimated tax prepayment, the due date for payment set forth in Article 104, paragraph (1), Article 107, paragraph (1) or Article 115 (Payment of Amount of Estimated Tax Prepayment) of the Income Tax Act applies (including cases where these provisions are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 166 (Application Mutatis Mutandis to Nonresidents) of the Act), and in the case of delinquent tax and interest tax, the due date for payment of the national tax used as the basis for the calculation thereof applies; hereinafter referred to as the "due date for payment"), the district director of the tax office must demand that such taxpayer pay the national tax by sending a demand letter, except where the national tax falls into any of the following categories:

②The demand letter referred to in the preceding paragraph is to be issued within 50 days from the due date for payment of the national tax, except as otherwise provided for in the national tax laws.

③When making the demand referred to in paragraph (1), if there is any delinquent tax or interest tax on the national tax to which the demand pertains, the district director of the tax office must also demand payment of that delinquent tax or interest tax.

①In any of the cases listed in the following items, if the district director of the tax office finds that there is any national tax for which the payable tax amount has been determined (in the case set forth in item (iii), excluding a national tax for which the liability to pay is an obligation to be paid with the trust property), but such national tax is not expected to be paid in full by the due date for payment, they may accelerate the due date and demand immediate payment of the national tax:

②The demand under the preceding paragraph is made by the district director of the tax office serving a written advance demand stating the tax amount payable, the advanced due date and the place of payment (or, when making a demand under that paragraph with regard to national withholding tax for which notice of tax payment has not been given, a written notice of tax payment bearing a supplementary note to the effect that the demand is being made).

③Where any of the items of paragraph (1) applies, if there is any of the following national taxes (excluding those for which the tax amount payable has been determined) for which it is found that collection of the national tax cannot be secured after the tax amount has been determined, the district director of the tax office may, before the statutory tax return due date for the national tax (including the due date for filing a tax basis return), determine, out of the amount of the national tax expected to be determined, the amount for which the district director finds it necessary to execute the delinquent tax collection procedure in advance in order to secure its collection. In this case, the relevant official of the tax office may immediately seize the property of the person up to that amount.

④The provisions of Article 159, paragraphs (2) through (11) (Preservative Seizure) of the National Tax Collection Act apply mutatis mutandis where a determination under the preceding paragraph has been made. In this case, the term "one year" in paragraph (5) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "10 months".

①Where an article subject to consumption tax, etc. (excluding consumption tax; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) has been liquidated through a compulsory liquidation procedure, if tax liability for consumption tax, etc. (including the expenses for the delinquent tax collection procedure thereof; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph, the following paragraph and Article 43, paragraph (1) (Competent Agency for Collection of National Taxes)) is established for the article under the provisions of the national tax laws, the district director of the tax office may collect that consumption tax, etc. out of the proceeds of its sale.

②When collecting consumption tax, etc. under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the district director of the tax office must notify the enforcement agency (meaning the enforcement agency prescribed in Article 2 (Definitions) of the National Tax Collection Act; the same applies hereinafter) and the taxpayer in advance of the tax amount to be collected under that paragraph and other necessary matters.

③Where the notice under the preceding paragraph has been given, if the liquidation referred to in paragraph (1) has been carried out, consumption tax, etc. equivalent to the tax amount in the notice is deemed to have been determined for the taxpayer by a determination under the provisions of Article 25 (Determination), and the notice to the enforcement agency is deemed to be a request for share distribution prescribed in the National Tax Collection Act (hereinafter referred to as a "request for share distribution").

If a national tax for which a demand has been made under the provisions of Article 37 (Demand) is not paid in full by the day on which 10 days have elapsed from the day on which the demand letter was issued, if a national tax for which a demand has been made under the provisions of Article 38, paragraph (1) (Advance Demand) is not paid in full by the due date specified in the demand, or in any other case provided for in the National Tax Collection Act, the district director of the tax office executes the delinquent tax collection procedure under the provisions of that Act and other laws.

①A national tax may be paid by a third party on behalf of the person who is to pay it.

②If a third party who has a legitimate interest in the payment of a national tax, or a third party who has obtained the consent of the person who is to pay a national tax, has paid the national tax in place of the person who is to pay it, and a mortgage has been created to secure the national tax, that third party may, by the payment, be subrogated to the State with regard to the mortgage; provided, however, that this does not apply if the mortgage is a revolving mortgage and the payment was made before the principal to be secured was fixed.

③In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the third party has paid part of the national tax referred to in that paragraph, the remaining national tax is collected in priority to the claim of the third party arising from the subrogation under that paragraph.

The provisions of Part III, Chapter I, Section 2, Subsection 2 (Obligee's Subrogation Right) and Subsection 3 (Obligee's Right to Demand Rescission of Fraudulent Act) of the Civil Code apply mutatis mutandis to the collection of national tax.

①The collection of a national tax is carried out by the district director of the tax office with jurisdiction over the place for tax payment of the national tax at the time of the disposition for collection (hereinafter referred to as the "current place for tax payment" in this Article); provided, however, that the collection of consumption tax, etc. on goods received from a bonded area and any other consumption tax, etc. imposed by the director-general of the customs house, or of international tourist tax (excluding that which is to be collected and paid under the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) (Special Collection, etc. by Domestic Business Operators) of the International Tourist Tax Act, and including the expenses for the delinquent tax collection procedure thereof), is carried out by the director-general of the customs house with jurisdiction over the place for tax payment of those national taxes.

②With regard to income tax, corporation tax, local corporation tax, inheritance tax, gift tax, land value tax, consumption tax on the transfer, etc. of a taxable asset, tax for promotion of power-resources development, or international tourist tax to be collected and paid under the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the International Tourist Tax Act, if any of the following items applies, the district director of the tax office specified in the relevant item may, notwithstanding the provisions of the main clause of the preceding paragraph, make a disposition for collection with regard to the national tax prescribed in that item:

③The regional commissioner of a Regional Taxation Bureau may, when finding it necessary, take over from a district director of the tax office with jurisdiction over an area within the regional commissioner's jurisdictional district the collection of a national tax that the district director collects.

④The district director of the tax office or the director-general of the customs house may, when finding it necessary, transfer the collection of a national tax that they collect to another district director of the tax office or director-general of the customs house.

⑤When the collection of a national tax has been transferred under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the regional commissioner of the Regional Taxation Bureau, district director of the tax office or director-general of the customs house who has taken over the collection is to notify the person who is to pay the national tax to that effect without delay.

①When reorganization proceedings or proceedings for the enforcement of an enterprise mortgage have commenced with regard to a stock company, a cooperative financial institution (meaning a cooperative financial institution prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Act on Special Measures for the Reorganization Proceedings of Financial Institutions (Act No. 95 of 1996); the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) or a mutual company (meaning a mutual company prescribed in paragraph (6) of that Article; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph), the regional commissioner of the Regional Taxation Bureau, district director of the tax office or director-general of the customs house who may collect the national tax of the company, cooperative financial institution or mutual company may transfer the collection of the national tax that they may collect to the regional commissioner of the Regional Taxation Bureau, district director of the tax office or director-general of the customs house with jurisdiction over the location of the district court before which the reorganization proceedings or proceedings for the enforcement of the enterprise mortgage are pending.

②The provisions of paragraph (5) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis where the collection of a national tax has been transferred under the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

①For the purpose of applying the provisions of this Chapter (excluding Article 38, paragraph (3) (Advance Demand), Article 39 (Special Provisions for Collection of Consumption Tax, etc. in Case of Compulsory Liquidation) and this Section; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) where the director-general of the customs house collects a national tax under the provisions of the proviso to Article 43, paragraph (1) (Competent Agency for Collection of National Taxes), or where the director-general of the customs house has taken over the collection of a national tax under the provisions of paragraph (4) of that Article or paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the terms "district director of the tax office" and "tax office" in this Chapter (excluding Article 34-6 (Obligation of Payment Agent to Retain Books, etc.) and Article 36 (Notice of Tax Payment)) are deemed to be replaced with "director-general of the customs house" and "customs house", respectively, and the term "Commissioner of the National Tax Agency" with "Minister of Finance"; the term "Commissioner of the National Tax Agency" in Article 34-6, paragraphs (2) and (3) is deemed to be replaced with "Minister of Finance"; the term "Commissioner of the National Tax Agency" in paragraph (6) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Minister of Finance", and the term "regional commissioner of a Regional Taxation Bureau" with "director-general of the customs house"; the term "district director of the tax office" in Article 36, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "director-general of the customs house", and the phrase "the same applies in the following Article)" with "the same applies in the following Article) or international tourist tax to be paid under the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (1) (Payment by International Tourists, etc.) of the International Tourist Tax Act that has not been paid by its statutory payment due date"; and the term "district director of the tax office" in paragraph (2) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "director-general of the customs house".

②For the purpose of applying the provisions of this Chapter (excluding Article 34-2 (Notice, etc. Concerning Payment by Account Transfer), Article 36, Article 38, paragraph (3), Article 39 and this Section) where the regional commissioner of a Regional Taxation Bureau has taken over the collection of a national tax under the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (3) or paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the terms "district director of the tax office" and "tax office" are deemed to be replaced with "regional commissioner of the Regional Taxation Bureau" and "Regional Taxation Bureau", respectively.

①Where a taxpayer has suffered a considerable loss of property due to an earthquake, flood, wind, lightning, fire or any other similar disaster, if the taxpayer has any national tax that falls under any of the following which is payable within one year from the day on which they suffered such loss, the district director of the tax office (in cases where the director-general of a customs house or the regional commissioner of a Regional Taxation Bureau collects national taxes pursuant to the provisions of the proviso to Article 43, paragraph (1), (3) or (4) (Competent Agency for Collection of National Taxes), or Article 44, paragraph (1) (Special Provisions on the Competent Agency for Collection When Reorganization Proceedings, etc. Have Commenced), the director-general or the regional commissioner; hereinafter referred to as the "district director of the tax office, etc." in this Chapter) may, based on an application filed by the taxpayer within two months from the day on which such disaster ended, grant a payment grace period for all or part of the national tax for up to one year from the due date for payment (in the case of a national withholding tax for which no notice of tax payment has been given, its statutory payment due date) (in the case of the national tax set forth in item (iii), the grace period is specified by Cabinet Order), as provided for by Cabinet Order:

②If there is a fact falling under any of the following items (excluding cases where the preceding paragraph applies), and the taxpayer is found to be unable to pay the national tax in a lump sum because of that fact, the district director of the tax office, etc. may, based on an application by the taxpayer, grant a grace period for the tax payment for a period not exceeding one year, up to the amount that the taxpayer is found to be unable to pay. The same applies where, having granted a tax payment grace period under that paragraph, the district director of the tax office, etc. finds that the taxpayer is unable to pay the amount under the grace period within the grace period because of having suffered the disaster referred to in that paragraph.