Article 45Replacement of Terms Where the Director-General of the Customs House or the Regional Commissioner Collects National Tax
第四十五条（税関長又は国税局長が徴収する場合の読替規定）
For 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".
第四十三条第一項ただし書（国税の徴収の所轄庁）の規定により税関長が徴収する場合又は同条第四項若しくは前条第一項の規定により税関長が徴収の引継ぎを受けた場合におけるこの章（第三十八条第三項（繰上請求）、第三十九条（強制換価の場合の消費税等の徴収の特例）及びこの節を除く。以下この項において同じ。）の規定の適用については、同章（第三十四条の六（納付受託者の帳簿保存等の義務）及び第三十六条（納税の告知）を除く。）中「税務署長」又は「税務署」とあるのは「税関長」又は「税関」と、「国税庁長官」とあるのは「財務大臣」と、第三十四条の六第二項及び第三項中「国税庁長官」とあるのは「財務大臣」と、同条第六項中「国税庁長官」とあるのは「財務大臣」と、「国税局長」とあるのは「税関長」と、第三十六条第一項中「税務署長」とあるのは「税関長」と、「同じ。）」とあるのは「同じ。）又は国際観光旅客税法第十八条第一項（国際観光旅客等による納付）の規定により納付すべき国際観光旅客税でその法定納期限までに納付されなかつたもの」と、同条第二項中「税務署長」とあるのは「税関長」とする。
For 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.
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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
consumption tax, etc.machine translation
「消費税等」
Consumption tax, liquor tax, tobacco tax, gasoline tax, local gasoline tax, liquefied petroleum gas tax and petroleum and coal tax.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (iii)· applies throughout the law
statutory payment due datemachine translation
「法定納期限」
The deadline the national tax laws set for paying a national tax, with special rules for tax on a late or amended return, tax notified after its deadline, tax collected at once when an event occurs, and accessory tax; a deadline that has been advanced, or extended by postponement or a grace period, does not count.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (viii)· applies throughout the law
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.
Commissioner of the National Tax Agency
国税庁長官
The head of the National Tax Agency (国税庁), the agency within the Ministry of Finance that assesses and collects national taxes (Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Finance, Articles 18 and 19). The Commissioner issues circulars (通達) setting out how the tax laws are read, and the National Tax Tribunal must tell the Commissioner beforehand when it will decide a case on a different reading (Act on General Rules for National Taxes, Article 99, paragraph (1)). An objection to a decision the Commissioner made is a request for review to the Commissioner (Article 75, paragraph (1), item (ii)).
Written by AI using Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Finance, Arts. 18, 19 and Act on General Rules for National Taxes, Arts. 75, 99 as a reference.
regional commissioner
国税局長
The head of a regional taxation bureau (国税局), the National Tax Agency's regional office, which oversees the tax offices of its region (Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Finance, Articles 23 and 24). Collection can be taken over from a district director (Act on General Rules for National Taxes, Article 43, paragraph (3)), and a person who objects to what a regional commissioner has decided can ask the commissioner 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)).
Written by AI using Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Finance, Arts. 23, 24 and Act on General Rules for National Taxes, Arts. 43, 75 as a reference.