The 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:
国税についての納付すべき税額の確定の手続については、次の各号に掲げるいずれかの方式によるものとし、これらの方式の内容は、当該各号に掲げるところによる。
self-assessment system: a method under which the payable tax amount is, in principle, determined by the return filed by the taxpayer, and is determined by a disposition of the district director or the director-general of a customs house only if no return has been filed, if the calculation of the tax amount in the return has not complied with the provisions of national tax laws, or if the tax amount otherwise differs from what the district director or the director-general of a customs house has found through examination;
official assessment system: a method under which the payable tax amount is determined exclusively by a disposition of the district director or the director-general of a customs house.
賦課課税方式 納付すべき税額がもつぱら税務署長又は税関長の処分により確定する方式をいう。
Which 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:
national tax for which the taxpayer is required, under the provisions of national tax laws, to file a return of the payable tax amount when the tax liability is established: the self-assessment system;
national tax other than that set forth in the preceding item: the official assessment system.
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national taxmachine translation
「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
taxpayermachine translation
「納税者」
A person liable under the national tax laws to pay a national tax, or to collect national withholding tax (源泉徴収等による国税) and pay it to the State, not counting secondary taxpayers (第二次納税義務者) under the National Tax Collection Act or guarantors of the tax.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (v)· applies throughout the law
tax liabilitymachine translation
「納税義務」
The obligation to pay a national tax — or, for national withholding tax (源泉徴収等による国税), to collect it and pay it to the State.
Short name set inArticle 15, paragraph (1)
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.
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.