No reassessment or determination, etc. listed in the following items may be made on or after the day on which five years (or three years, for an assessment and determination (excluding one that reduces the payable tax amount) pertaining to a national tax for which the filing of the tax basis return prescribed in item (ii) is required and for which that return has been filed) have elapsed from the due date or day specified in the relevant item:
reassessment or determination: the statutory tax return due date for the national tax to which the reassessment or determination pertains (for a reassessment pertaining to a return of refund claim, the day on which that return was filed, and for a determination under the provisions of Article 25 (Determination) to be carried out when no return of refund claim is filed, or a reassessment following such determination, the day specified by Cabinet Order);
an assessment and determination regarding the national tax for which a tax basis return is required to be filed:the due date of the filing of such return; or
an assessment and determination regarding the national tax subject to the official assessment system for which no tax basis return is required the day on which tax liability was established.
Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, a reassessment to increase or decrease the amount of net loss, etc. pertaining to corporation tax arising during the taxable period concerned, or a reassessment made on the assumption of the existence of that amount, may be carried out until the day on which 10 years have elapsed from the due date specified in item (i) of that paragraph.
Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, a reassessment pertaining to a request for reassessment made within six months before the day on which a reassessment can no longer be carried out pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, or an assessment and determination with regard to penalty tax to be imposed upon that reassessment, may be carried out until the day on which six months have elapsed from the day on which the request for reassessment was made.
Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), an assessment and determination with regard to penalty tax for failure to file (limited to that to which the provisions of Article 66, paragraph (8) (Penalty Tax for Failure to File) apply) or penalty tax for non-payment (limited to that to which the provisions of Article 67, paragraph (2) (Penalty Tax for Non-payment) apply) to be imposed upon the filing of a tax return (including the payment of national withholding tax; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) made within three months before the day on which an assessment and determination can no longer be made pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) may be made until the day on which three months have elapsed from the day on which the tax return was filed.
Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) or the preceding two paragraphs, a reassessment or determination, etc. listed in the following items may be carried out until the day on which seven years have elapsed from the due date or day specified in the items of paragraph (1) for the types of reassessment or determination, etc. listed in those items:
a reassessment or determination, etc. of a national tax (including any penalty tax and negligence tax on the national tax) which a taxpayer evaded in whole or in part or of which the taxpayer received a partial or complete refund through deception or other wrongful acts;
a reassessment of the amount of net loss, etc. stated in a tax return which deceptively or otherwise wrongfully overstates the amount of net loss, etc. arising during the taxable period concerned (or if a reassessment of the amount has been carried out, the reassessed amount) (excluding a reassessment pertaining to the amount of net loss, etc. pertaining to corporation tax to which the provisions of paragraph (2) or paragraph (3) apply); and
a reassessment or determination, etc. of income tax (including any penalty tax on the income tax; referred to as "income tax subject to the special provisions for departure from Japan, etc." in Article 73, paragraph (3) (Suspension of Completion and Renewal of Prescription)) in the case where the provisions of Article 60-2, paragraphs (1) through (3) (Special Provisions on Capital Gains, etc. upon Departure from Japan) or Article 60-3, paragraphs (1) through (3) (Special Provisions on Capital Gains, etc. When Assets Are Transferred to a Nonresident through Gift, etc.) of the Income Tax Act apply (excluding the case where a notification of a tax agent has been made pursuant to the provisions of Article 117, paragraph (2) (Tax Agent) and a document has been submitted pursuant to the provisions of Article 30 (Clarification of Authority for Tax Representation) of the Certified Public Tax Accountant Act (Act No. 237 of 1951) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 48-16 (Application Mutatis Mutandis of Provisions on the Rights, Obligations, etc. of Certified Public Tax Accountants) of that Act), and other cases specified by Cabinet Order).
所得税法第六十条の二第一項から第三項まで（国外転出をする場合の譲渡所得等の特例）又は第六十条の三第一項から第三項まで（贈与等により非居住者に資産が移転した場合の譲渡所得等の特例）の規定の適用がある場合（第百十七条第二項（納税管理人）の規定による納税管理人の届出及び税理士法（昭和二十六年法律第二百三十七号）第三十条（税務代理の権限の明示）（同法第四十八条の十六（税理士の権利及び義務等に関する規定の準用）において準用する場合を含む。）の規定による書面の提出がある場合その他の政令で定める場合を除く。）の所得税（当該所得税に係る加算税を含む。第七十三条第三項（時効の完成猶予及び更新）において「国外転出等特例の適用がある場合の所得税」という。）についての更正決定等
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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
national withholding taxmachine translation
「源泉徴収等による国税」
Income tax collected by withholding (源泉徴収) and the international tourist tax (国際観光旅客税) that international passenger carriers collect from departing travellers and pay to the State, not counting the accessory tax (附帯税) on them.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (ii)· 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
amount of net loss, etc.
「純損失等の金額」
The losses and allowances a tax return may carry forward or back: an individual's net loss or casualty loss under the income tax rules, a corporation's loss (欠損金額) under the corporation tax rules, and, for gift tax, what is left of the 25 million yen special deduction for gifts taxed together with inheritance, as listed in Article 2, item (vi)(c).
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (vi), (c)
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
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)
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
tax basis returnmachine translation
「課税標準申告書」
The return stating the tax basis that a taxpayer of a national tax assessed by the tax office (賦課課税方式) must file with the tax office by its deadline under Article 31, paragraph (1).
Short name set inArticle 31, paragraph (2)
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)
reassessment or determination, etc.
「更正決定等」
A reassessment (更正), a determination (決定) under Article 25, or an assessment and determination (賦課決定) — the ways a tax office fixes or corrects the amount of tax payable.
Short name set inArticle 58, paragraph (1), item (i), (a)
return of refund claimmachine translation
「還付請求申告書」
A tax return filed to obtain a refund, of a kind specified by Cabinet Order (政令).
Short name set inArticle 61, paragraph (1), item (ii)
penalty tax
「加算税」
The four penalty taxes charged on top of a tax — for understatement (過少申告加算税), for failure to file (無申告加算税), for non-payment (不納付加算税), and the heavy penalty tax (重加算税) — each of which counts as a national tax of the same tax item as the tax it is calculated on.
Short name set inArticle 69, paragraph (1)
income tax subject to the special provisions for departure from Japan, etc.machine translation
「国外転出等特例の適用がある場合の所得税」
Income tax, including the penalty tax (加算税) on it, to which the special rules of Article 60-2, paragraphs (1) to (3) (capital gains on departure from Japan) or Article 60-3, paragraphs (1) to (3) (capital gains when assets pass to a nonresident by gift or similar) of the Income Tax Act apply — other than in the cases a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies, such as where a tax agent (納税管理人) has been notified under Article 117, paragraph (2) and a document under Article 30 of the Certified Public Tax Accountant Act has been submitted.
Short name set inArticle 70, paragraph (5), item (iii)· applies only in this provision and in Article 73, paragraph (3)