①With regard to the reports and statements prescribed in Article 8-4, paragraph (9), Article 9-4-2, paragraph (2), Article 29-2, paragraph (6) or (7), Article 37-11-3, paragraph (7), Article 37-14, paragraph (35), Article 37-14-2, paragraph (27) or Article 41-2-3, paragraph (2) that are to be submitted under those provisions (hereinafter referred to as "statements and similar reports" in this Article), where the number calculated as provided by Order of the Ministry of Finance as the number of sheets of those statements and similar reports that should have been submitted during the period from January 1 to December 31 of the year before the year preceding the year that includes the due date for submitting those statements and similar reports is 100 or more, the person required to submit those statements and similar reports must, notwithstanding those provisions, provide the matters prescribed in those provisions that are to be stated in those statements and similar reports (hereinafter referred to as the "required particulars" in this Article) to the district director prescribed in those provisions by either of the following methods:

②A person required to submit statements and similar reports (other than a person falling under the preceding paragraph) may submit an optical disc or similar medium on which the required particulars of the statements and similar reports that the person is required to submit have been recorded in lieu of submitting those statements and similar reports.

③If a person required to submit statements and similar reports has obtained, as provided by Cabinet Order, the approval of the competent district director (meaning the district director prescribed in Article 8-4, paragraph (9), Article 9-4-2, paragraph (2), Article 29-2, paragraph (6) or (7), Article 37-11-3, paragraph (7), Article 37-14, paragraph (35), Article 37-14-2, paragraph (27) or Article 41-2-3, paragraph (2)), the person may, notwithstanding those provisions and the provisions of paragraph (1), provide the required particulars of those statements and similar reports to the district director specified by Order of the Ministry of Finance by either of the methods listed in the items of that paragraph.

④With regard to the provision of the required particulars made under the provisions of paragraph (1) or the preceding paragraph and the submission of an optical disc or similar medium made under the provisions of paragraph (2), the statements and similar reports are deemed to have been submitted under the provisions of Article 8-4, paragraph (9), Article 9-4-2, paragraph (2), Article 29-2, paragraph (6) or (7), Article 37-11-3, paragraph (7), Article 37-14, paragraph (35), Article 37-14-2, paragraph (27) or Article 41-2-3, paragraph (2), and those provisions, Article 8-4, paragraphs (10) through (14), Article 9-4-2, paragraphs (3) through (7), Article 29-2, paragraphs (9) through (13), Article 37-11-3, paragraphs (12) through (16), Article 37-14, paragraphs (37) through (41), Article 37-14-2, paragraphs (32) through (36), Article 41-2-3, paragraphs (3) through (7) and the following Article apply.