In the case falling under the provisions of Article 65, paragraph (1) (Penalty Tax for Understatement) (excluding where the filing of an amended return was not made in anticipation that a reassessment would be made of the national tax pertaining to the return because an examination had been conducted with regard to that national tax), if the taxpayer has concealed or disguised all or part of the facts that are to form the basis for the calculation of the tax basis, etc. or tax amount, etc. of that national tax, and has filed a tax return or a written request for reassessment prescribed in Article 23, paragraph (3) (Request for Reassessment) (referred to as a "written request for reassessment" in the following paragraph) based on what was concealed or disguised, heavy penalty tax is imposed on the taxpayer, as provided for by Cabinet Order, in lieu of penalty tax for understatement on the tax amount that is to form the basis for the calculation of the amount of penalty tax for understatement (if any of that tax amount is clearly based on facts that are to form the basis for its calculation and that were not concealed or disguised, the tax amount obtained by deducting the amount calculated, as provided for by Cabinet Order, as the tax amount based on those facts not concealed or disguised), in an amount equivalent to the amount calculated by multiplying that tax amount that is to form the basis by 35%.
第六十五条第一項(過少申告加算税)の規定に該当する場合(修正申告書の提出が、その申告に係る国税についての調査があつたことにより当該国税について更正があるべきことを予知してされたものでない場合を除く。)において、納税者がその国税の課税標準等又は税額等の計算の基礎となるべき事実の全部又は一部を隠蔽し、又は仮装し、かつ、その隠蔽し、又は仮装したところに基づき納税申告書又は第二十三条第三項(更正の請求)に規定する更正請求書(次項において「更正請求書」という。)を提出していたときは、当該納税者に対し、政令で定めるところにより、過少申告加算税の額の計算の基礎となるべき税額(その税額の計算の基礎となるべき事実で隠蔽し、又は仮装されていないものに基づくことが明らかであるものがあるときは、当該隠蔽し、又は仮装されていない事実に基づく税額として政令で定めるところにより計算した金額を控除した税額)に係る過少申告加算税に代え、当該基礎となるべき税額に百分の三十五の割合を乗じて計算した金額に相当する重加算税を課する。
In the case falling under the provisions of Article 66, paragraph (1) (Penalty Tax for Failure to File) (excluding where the proviso to that paragraph or paragraph (9) of that Article applies, or where the filing of a tax return was not made in anticipation that a reassessment or determination would be made of the national tax pertaining to the return because an examination had been conducted with regard to that national tax), if the taxpayer has concealed or disguised all or part of the facts that are to form the basis for the calculation of the tax basis, etc. or tax amount, etc. of that national tax, and, based on what was concealed or disguised, has not filed a tax return by the statutory tax return due date, or has filed a tax return or a written request for reassessment after the statutory tax return due date, heavy penalty tax is imposed on the taxpayer, as provided for by Cabinet Order, in lieu of penalty tax for failure to file on the tax amount that is to form the basis for the calculation of the amount of penalty tax for failure to file (if any of that tax amount is clearly based on facts that are to form the basis for its calculation and that were not concealed or disguised, the tax amount obtained by deducting the amount calculated, as provided for by Cabinet Order, as the tax amount based on those facts not concealed or disguised), in an amount equivalent to the amount calculated by multiplying that tax amount that is to form the basis by 40%.
第六十六条第一項(無申告加算税)の規定に該当する場合(同項ただし書若しくは同条第九項の規定の適用がある場合又は納税申告書の提出が、その申告に係る国税についての調査があつたことにより当該国税について更正又は決定があるべきことを予知してされたものでない場合を除く。)において、納税者がその国税の課税標準等又は税額等の計算の基礎となるべき事実の全部又は一部を隠蔽し、又は仮装し、かつ、その隠蔽し、又は仮装したところに基づき法定申告期限までに納税申告書を提出せず、又は法定申告期限後に納税申告書若しくは更正請求書を提出していたときは、当該納税者に対し、政令で定めるところにより、無申告加算税の額の計算の基礎となるべき税額(その税額の計算の基礎となるべき事実で隠蔽し、又は仮装されていないものに基づくことが明らかであるものがあるときは、当該隠蔽し、又は仮装されていない事実に基づく税額として政令で定めるところにより計算した金額を控除した税額)に係る無申告加算税に代え、当該基礎となるべき税額に百分の四十の割合を乗じて計算した金額に相当する重加算税を課する。
In the case falling under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (excluding where the proviso to that paragraph or paragraph (2) or (3) of that Article applies), if the taxpayer has concealed or disguised all or part of the facts and, based on what was concealed or disguised, has not paid that national tax by its statutory payment due date, the district director or director-general of a customs house collects from the taxpayer, in lieu of penalty tax for non-payment on the tax amount that is to form the basis for the calculation of the amount of penalty tax for non-payment (if any of that tax amount is clearly based on facts that are to form the basis for its calculation and that were not concealed or disguised, the tax amount obtained by deducting the amount calculated, as provided for by Cabinet Order, as the tax amount based on those facts not concealed or disguised), heavy penalty tax in an amount equivalent to the amount calculated by multiplying that tax amount that is to form the basis by 35%.
前条第一項の規定に該当する場合(同項ただし書又は同条第二項若しくは第三項の規定の適用がある場合を除く。)において、納税者が事実の全部又は一部を隠蔽し、又は仮装し、かつ、その隠蔽し、又は仮装したところに基づきその国税をその法定納期限までに納付しなかつたときは、税務署長又は税関長は、当該納税者から、不納付加算税の額の計算の基礎となるべき税額(その税額の計算の基礎となるべき事実で隠蔽し、又は仮装されていないものに基づくことが明らかであるものがあるときは、当該隠蔽し、又は仮装されていない事実に基づく税額として政令で定めるところにより計算した金額を控除した税額)に係る不納付加算税に代え、当該基礎となるべき税額に百分の三十五の割合を乗じて計算した金額に相当する重加算税を徴収する。
In the case falling under the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs, if any of the following items applies (in the case falling under the provisions of paragraph (1) or the preceding paragraph, item (i)), the amount of heavy penalty tax referred to in the preceding three paragraphs is, notwithstanding those provisions, to be the amount obtained by adding, to the amount calculated under those provisions, the amount calculated by multiplying the tax amount that is to form the basis prescribed in those provisions by 10%:
where, within the period going back five years, counting from the day preceding the day on which, based on facts that are to form the basis for the calculation of the tax amount prescribed in the preceding three paragraphs and that were concealed or disguised, a return filed after the due date or an amended return was filed, a reassessment or determination was made, or a notice of tax payment (meaning a notice of tax payment under the provisions of Article 36, paragraph (1) (limited to the part concerning item (ii)) (Notice of Tax Payment); the same applies hereinafter in this item) was given or a payment was made without a notice of tax payment having been received, the taxpayer has had penalty tax for failure to file, etc. imposed or collected with regard to the tax item to which the national tax pertaining to that return, reassessment or determination, or notice or payment belongs; or
where the taxpayer has had specified penalty tax for failure to file, etc. imposed with regard to the tax item to which belongs that national tax whose taxable period began in the year preceding, or in the year two years before, the year that includes the first day of the taxable period of the national tax pertaining to the filing of the return filed after the due date or amended return or to the reassessment or determination (for that national tax without a taxable period, that national tax for which tax liability was established in the year preceding, or in the year two years before, the year that includes the day on which the tax liability for that national tax was established), or where it is found that an assessment and determination should be made with regard to specified penalty tax for failure to file, etc.
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(Request for Reassessment)
A 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…
更正の請求をしようとする者は、その請求に係る更正後の課税標準等又は税額等、その更正の請求をする理由、当該請求をするに至つた事情の詳細、当該請求に係る更正前の納付すべき税額及び還付金の額に相当する税額その他参考となるべき事項を記載した更正請求書を税務署長に提出しなければならない。
Open this provisionNotice of Tax Payment
When 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…
税務署長は、国税に関する法律の規定により次に掲げる国税(その滞納処分費を除く。次条において同じ。)を徴収しようとするときは、納税の告知をしなければならない。
Open this provisionNotice of Tax Payment
national withholding tax that has not been paid by its statutory payment due date;
源泉徴収等による国税でその法定納期限までに納付されなかつたもの
Open this provisionPenalty Tax for Understatement
Where a return filed by the due date (including a return of refund claim; the same applies in paragraph (3)) has been filed…
期限内申告書(還付請求申告書を含む。第三項において同じ。)が提出された場合(期限後申告書が提出された場合において、次条第一項ただし書又は第九項の規定の適用があるときを含む。)において、修正申告書の提出又は更正があつたときは、当該納税者に対し…
Open this provisionPenalty Tax for Failure to File
In any of the cases listed in the following items, penalty tax for failure to file is imposed on the taxpayer in an amount equivalent to the amount calculated by multiplying the tax amount payable…
次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、当該納税者に対し、当該各号に規定する申告、更正又は決定に基づき第三十五条第二項(申告納税方式による国税等の納付)の規定により納付すべき税額に百分の十五の割合(期限後申告書又は第二号の修正申告書の提出が、その申告に係る国税についての調査があつたことにより当該国税について更正又は決定…
Open this provisionPenalty Tax for Failure to File
The provisions of paragraph (1) do not apply if the filing of a return filed after the due date was not made in anticipation that a determination under the provisions of Article 25 would be made of…
第一項の規定は、期限後申告書の提出が、その申告に係る国税についての調査があつたことにより当該国税について第二十五条の規定による決定があるべきことを予知してされたものでない場合において、期限内申告書を提出する意思があつたと認められる場合として政令で定める場合に該当してされたものであり、かつ…
Open this provisionPenalty Tax for Non-payment
If a national withholding tax has not been paid in full by its statutory payment due date, the district director or director-general of a customs house collects from the taxpayer penalty tax for…
源泉徴収等による国税がその法定納期限までに完納されなかつた場合には、税務署長又は税関長は、当該納税者から、納税の告知(第三十六条第一項(納税の告知)の規定による納税の告知(同項第二号に係るものに限る。)をいう。次項において同じ。)に係る税額又はその法定納期限後に当該告知を受けることなく納付された税額に百分の十の割合を…
Open this provisionPenalty Tax for Non-payment
Where a national withholding tax has been paid after its statutory payment due date without a notice of tax payment having been received, if the payment was not made in anticipation that the notice…
源泉徴収等による国税が納税の告知を受けることなくその法定納期限後に納付された場合において、その納付が、当該国税についての調査があつたことにより当該国税について当該告知があるべきことを予知してされたものでないときは、その納付された税額に係る前項の不納付加算税の額は、同項の規定にかかわらず…
Open this provisionPenalty Tax for Non-payment
The provisions of paragraph (1) do not apply where a payment falling under the provisions of the preceding paragraph has been made, if the payment was made in a case specified by Cabinet Order as a…
第一項の規定は、前項の規定に該当する納付がされた場合において、その納付が法定納期限までに納付する意思があつたと認められる場合として政令で定める場合に該当してされたものであり、かつ、当該納付に係る源泉徴収等による国税が法定納期限から一月を経過する日までに納付されたものであるときは、適用しない。
Open this provisionHeavy Penalty Tax
In the case falling under the provisions of Article 65, paragraph (1) (Penalty Tax for Understatement) (excluding where the filing of an amended return was not made in anticipation that a…
第六十五条第一項(過少申告加算税)の規定に該当する場合(修正申告書の提出が、その申告に係る国税についての調査があつたことにより当該国税について更正があるべきことを予知してされたものでない場合を除く。)において、納税者がその国税の課税標準等又は税額等の計算の基礎となるべき事実の全部又は一部を隠蔽し、又は仮装し、かつ…
Open this provisionHeavy Penalty Tax
In the case falling under the provisions of Article 66, paragraph (1) (Penalty Tax for Failure to File) (excluding where the proviso to that paragraph or paragraph (9) of that Article applies, or…
第六十六条第一項(無申告加算税)の規定に該当する場合(同項ただし書若しくは同条第九項の規定の適用がある場合又は納税申告書の提出が、その申告に係る国税についての調査があつたことにより当該国税について更正又は決定があるべきことを予知してされたものでない場合を除く。)において…
Open this provisionHeavy Penalty Tax
In the case falling under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (excluding where the proviso to that paragraph or paragraph (2) or (3) of that Article applies)…
前条第一項の規定に該当する場合(同項ただし書又は同条第二項若しくは第三項の規定の適用がある場合を除く。)において、納税者が事実の全部又は一部を隠蔽し、又は仮装し、かつ、その隠蔽し、又は仮装したところに基づきその国税をその法定納期限までに納付しなかつたときは、税務署長又は税関長は、当該納税者から…
Open this provisionHeavy Penalty Tax
where, within the period going back five years, counting from the day preceding the day on which, based on facts that are to form the basis for the calculation of the tax amount prescribed in the…
前三項に規定する税額の計算の基礎となるべき事実で隠蔽し、又は仮装されたものに基づき期限後申告書若しくは修正申告書の提出、更正若しくは決定又は納税の告知(第三十六条第一項(第二号に係る部分に限る。)(納税の告知)の規定による納税の告知をいう。以下この号において同じ。)若しくは納税の告知を受けることなくされた納付があつた…
Open this provisionnational 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 return
「納税申告書」
A return filed under the national tax laws for a self-assessed national tax (申告納税方式), stating the tax basis, the tax payable, losses carried forward or back, a refund or similar items, including a return filed to claim a refund.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (vi)· applies throughout the law
statutory tax return due date
「法定申告期限」
The deadline the national tax laws set for filing a tax return (including a deadline those laws treat as one, and, in some transitional provisions, the day a return claiming a refund is filed).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (vii)· 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
taxable periodmachine translation
「課税期間」
The period on which the tax basis of a national tax is calculated under the national tax laws; for consumption tax on taxable transfers of assets and services, the taxable period under Article 19 of the Consumption Tax Act (for an individual business, the calendar year, and for a corporation, its business year, unless shortened).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (ix)· 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)
tax amount, etc.machine translation
「税額等」
The tax amounts in a tax return listed in Article 2, item (vi)(d) to (f): the tax payable, the tax equal to a refund, and the amounts deducted or used in calculating them.
Defined inArticle 19, paragraph (1)
tax basis, etc.machine translation
「課税標準等」
The items of a tax return listed in Article 2, item (vi)(a) to (c): the tax basis, the amounts deducted from it, and the amount of net loss, etc. (純損失等の金額).
Defined inArticle 19, paragraph (1)
request for reassessmentmachine translation
「更正の請求」
A request to the tax office director (税務署長) to reassess (更正) the tax base or tax amount in a tax return, made under Article 23, paragraph (1) — within five years of the statutory tax return due date (ten years in one case for corporation tax) where the return overstated the tax or understated a loss or refund — or, on the grounds in paragraph (2), such as a court judgment or another person's reassessment showing the figures were wrong, within two months of that event, when a person whose tax was fixed by a determination (決定) may also make it.
Short name set inArticle 23, paragraph (2)
reassessment or determinationmachine translation
「更正又は決定」
A reassessment (更正) or determination (決定) under Articles 24 to 26 — the tax office director correcting a filed return, or fixing the tax of someone who should have filed but did not — which is made by serving a written notice of reassessment or determination.
Short name set inArticle 28, paragraph (1)
reassessmentmachine translation
「更正」
From Article 29 to Article 72, a reassessment under Article 24 or Article 26: the tax office director's (税務署長) correction, based on an investigation, of the tax base or tax amount stated in a tax return, or of one set by an earlier reassessment or determination (決定).
Short name set inArticle 29, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Articles 29 to 72
assessment and determination
「賦課決定」
A determination by the tax office director under Article 32 fixing the tax basis and the tax payable for a national tax assessed by the tax office (賦課課税方式), such as a penalty tax.
Short name set inArticle 32, paragraph (5)
penalty tax for failure to file, etc.machine translation
「無申告加算税等」
In Article 68, paragraph (4), item (i), a penalty tax for failure to file (無申告加算税) — other than one imposed where the late or amended return was not filed in anticipation of a reassessment or determination following an investigation of the tax — or a heavy penalty tax (重加算税).
Short name set inArticle 66, paragraph (6), item (i)· applies only in this provision and in Article 68, paragraph (4), item (i)
specified penalty tax for failure to file, etc.machine translation
「特定無申告加算税等」
In Article 66, paragraph (6), item (ii) and Article 68, paragraph (4), item (ii), a penalty tax for failure to file (無申告加算税), other than the reduced one under Article 66, paragraph (8), or a heavy penalty tax (重加算税) under Article 68, paragraph (2); where one was charged, or is due, on the same kind of tax for either of the two preceding years, a later penalty for failure to file is raised by a further 10% of the tax due.
Short name set inArticle 66, paragraph (6), item (ii)· applies only in this item and in Article 68, paragraph (4), item (ii)
written request for reassessmentmachine translation
「更正請求書」
The written request under Article 23, paragraph (3) by which a taxpayer asks the tax office director (税務署長) to reassess (更正) tax already declared, setting out the corrected tax basis and tax amounts, the reasons for the request and the circumstances behind it; where a taxpayer files one on facts they have concealed or disguised, Article 68 charges the heavy penalty tax (重加算税) in place of the penalty tax for understatement (過少申告加算税).
Short name set inArticle 68, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 68, paragraph (2)
notice of tax paymentmachine translation
「納税の告知」
In Article 68, paragraph (4), item (i), a notice of tax payment that the district director (税務署長) gives under Article 36, paragraph (1), item (ii) to collect national withholding tax (源泉徴収等による国税) not paid by its statutory payment due date (法定納期限).
Defined inArticle 68, paragraph (4), item (i)· applies only in this item
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.