When the article to be inspected or the article to be seized is a recording medium containing an electronic or magnetic record, the relevant official may request the person subject to the inspection, or to the search or seizure, to operate a computer or provide any other necessary cooperation.

A warrant for an inspection, search, seizure or seizure with a recording order must be presented to the person subject to that disposition.

When the relevant official asks questions or carries out an examination, retention, inspection, search, seizure or seizure with a recording order pursuant to the provisions of this Section, the official must carry a certificate of identification and must present it when requested by a person concerned.

When it is necessary in carrying out an inspection, search, seizure or seizure with a recording order, the relevant official may request the assistance of police officers.

①When carrying out an inspection, search, seizure or seizure with a recording order in a person's residence or in premises, a building or any other place guarded by a person, the relevant official must have its owner or administrator (including their representative, agent or any other person who is to act in their place), or an employee of such a person or a relative living together with such a person who has reached the age of majority, attend.

②In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, when the relevant official cannot have a person prescribed in that paragraph attend, the official must have a neighbor who has reached the age of majority, or a police officer or an official of a local government of that locality, attend.

③In the case where an inspection, search or seizure is carried out pursuant to the provisions of Article 135 (Inspection, Search or Seizure in a Case of a Flagrant Offense), if the matter is urgent, the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs need not be followed.

④When the body of a woman is searched, an adult woman must be made to attend; provided, however, that this does not apply in the case where the matter is urgent.

When the relevant official has carried out a retention, seizure or seizure with a recording order, the official must prepare an inventory thereof and deliver a transcript of it to the owner, possessor or custodian of the retained articles, seized articles or articles seized with a recording order (including a person who has been subject to a disposition pursuant to the provisions of Article 136 (Disposition in Lieu of Seizure of a Recording Medium Containing an Electronic or Magnetic Record)) or to a person who is to act in their place.

①Retained articles, seized articles or articles seized with a recording order that are inconvenient to transport or keep may be placed in the custody of their owner or possessor or any other person whom the relevant official finds appropriate, with that person's consent and by obtaining a custody receipt from that person.

②The Commissioner of the National Tax Agency, a regional commissioner or a district director may, when retained articles or seized articles have rotted or deteriorated, or are likely to rot or deteriorate, sell them at public auction after giving public notice and deposit the proceeds, as prescribed by Cabinet Order.

①When it has become unnecessary to hold retained articles, seized articles or articles seized with a recording order, the relevant official must return them to the person who is to receive their return.

②In the case where the Commissioner of the National Tax Agency, a regional commissioner or a district director cannot return the retained articles, seized articles or articles seized with a recording order referred to in the preceding paragraph because the domicile or residence of the person who is to receive their return is unknown, or for any other reason, they must give public notice to that effect.

③If no request for the return of the retained articles, seized articles or articles seized with a recording order to which the public notice referred to in the preceding paragraph pertains has been made even after six months have elapsed from the date of the public notice, those articles belong to the National Treasury.

①In the case where it has become unnecessary to hold a recording medium that was seized after the relevant official transferred, or had a person transfer, an electronic or magnetic record pursuant to the provisions of Article 136 (Disposition in Lieu of Seizure of a Recording Medium Containing an Electronic or Magnetic Record), if the person subject to the seizure and the owner, possessor or custodian of that recording medium are different persons, the relevant official must deliver that recording medium to the person subject to the seizure or allow that person to copy that electronic or magnetic record.

②The provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the delivery or copying under the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

③If no request for the delivery or copying referred to in the preceding paragraph has been made even after six months have elapsed from the date of the public notice under the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph, it is not necessary to make the delivery or to allow the copying.

①When it is necessary in order to investigate a criminal tax case, the relevant official may commission a person with relevant knowledge and experience to conduct an expert examination of retained articles, seized articles or articles seized with a recording order, or may commission interpretation or translation.

②A person who has been commissioned to conduct an expert examination under the provisions of the preceding paragraph (referred to as an "expert examiner" in paragraphs (4) and (5)) may destroy an article pertaining to that expert examination with the permission of a judge of the district court or summary court having jurisdiction over the location of the government office to which the relevant official referred to in the preceding paragraph belongs.

③A request for the permission referred to in the preceding paragraph must be made by the relevant official.

④In the case where a request referred to in the preceding paragraph has been made, if the judge finds the request to be reasonable, the judge must deliver to the relevant official a warrant stating the name of the suspect (for a corporation, its name), the name of the offense, the article to be destroyed, the name of the expert examiner, the official title and name of the requester, the period of validity, a statement that execution may not be commenced after the expiration of that period and that the warrant must then be returned, the date of issuance and the name of the court, and bearing the judge's name and seal.

⑤The expert examiner must show the warrant referred to in the preceding paragraph to the person subject to the disposition referred to in paragraph (2).

①An inspection, search, seizure or seizure with a recording order must not be carried out between sunset and sunrise unless the warrant states that it may be executed even at night; provided, however, that this does not apply in the case where a disposition is carried out pursuant to the provisions of Article 135 (Inspection, Search or Seizure in a Case of a Flagrant Offense), or in the case where, with regard to consumption tax imposed on taxable goods prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xi) (Definitions) of the Consumption Tax Act or any other national tax specified by Cabinet Order, these dispositions are carried out in an inn, restaurant or any other place which the public may enter and leave even at night, during the hours in which it is open to the public.

②An inspection, search, seizure or seizure with a recording order commenced before sunset may be continued after sunset when it is found to be necessary.

While asking questions or carrying out an examination, retention, inspection, search, seizure or seizure with a recording order pursuant to the provisions of this Section, the relevant official may prohibit any person from entering or leaving the place without permission.

In the case where the execution of a warrant for an inspection, search, seizure or seizure with a recording order is suspended, when necessary, the place may be closed, or a guard may be posted there, until the execution is completed.

In the case where a search has been carried out, if there are no articles of evidence or articles to be confiscated, a certificate to that effect must be delivered upon the request of the person subject to the search.

①When the relevant official has asked questions pursuant to the provisions of this Section, the official must prepare a record thereof, have the person questioned read it or read it aloud to that person, ask whether it contains any errors, and, if the person questioned has requested any addition, deletion or change, enter that statement in the record, and sign and seal the record together with the person questioned; provided, however, that if the person questioned does not or cannot sign and seal it, it is sufficient to append a note to that effect.

②When the relevant official has carried out an examination or retention pursuant to the provisions of this Section, the official must prepare a record thereof and sign and seal it.

③When the relevant official has carried out an inspection, search, seizure or seizure with a recording order pursuant to the provisions of this Section, the official must prepare a record thereof, show it to the persons in attendance, and sign and seal it together with them; provided, however, that if a person in attendance does not or cannot sign and seal it, it is sufficient to append a note to that effect.