The 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.
With 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:
所得税、法人税、地方法人税、相続税、贈与税、地価税、課税資産の譲渡等に係る消費税、電源開発促進税又は国際観光旅客税法第十六条第一項の規定により徴収して納付すべき国際観光旅客税については、次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、当該各号に定める税務署長は、前項本文の規定にかかわらず、当該各号に規定する国税について徴収に係る処分をすることができる。
where a reassessment or determination under Article 30, paragraph (2) (Competent Agency for Reassessment or Determination) (including an assessment and determination of the penalty tax prescribed in Article 69 (Tax Items for Penalty Tax) on the tax amount payable as a result of the reassessment or determination) or an assessment and determination under Article 33, paragraph (2), item (ii) (Competent Agency for Assessment and Determination, etc.) has been made, and the grounds prescribed in those paragraphs continue to exist with regard to the national tax pertaining to those dispositions even after the dispositions were made: the district director of the tax office who made the disposition;
where the place for tax payment of those national taxes has changed on or after the time when the tax amount payable for them was determined, and the district director of the tax office with jurisdiction over a place for tax payment involved in the change other than the current place for tax payment (hereinafter referred to as the "former place for tax payment" in this item) 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.
The 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.
国税局長は、必要があると認めるときは、その管轄区域内の地域を所轄する税務署長からその徴収する国税について徴収の引継ぎを受けることができる。
The 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.
税務署長又は税関長は、必要があると認めるときは、その徴収する国税について他の税務署長又は税関長に徴収の引継ぎをすることができる。
When 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.