①Where a corporation that files a blue return and that has obtained the certification under Article 11, paragraph (1) or Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Advancement of Recycling Businesses, etc. for the Promotion of Resource Circulation (Act No. 41 of 2024) acquires, during the period from the date of enforcement of that Act to March 31, 2028, machinery and equipment and furniture and fixtures constituting the facilities specified in each of the following items that are stated in the plan listed in that item pertaining to that certification (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as a "certified plan"), which are specified by Cabinet Order as contributing remarkably to the advancement of recycling businesses, etc. prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of that Act (limited to those of a scale specified by Cabinet Order; hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as "equipment for advancing recycling businesses, etc.") that have not been used for business since their manufacture, or manufactures equipment for advancing recycling businesses, etc., and puts it to use for the corporation's designated business (meaning the advanced recycling business prescribed in Article 11, paragraph (1) of that Act or the advanced separation and recovery business prescribed in Article 16, paragraph (1) of that Act; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) (excluding the case where the corporation puts to that use equipment for advancing recycling businesses, etc. acquired through a lease transaction without transfer of ownership), the depreciation limit for that equipment for advancing recycling businesses, etc. for the business year that includes the day on which it was put to that use is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 31, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) of the Corporation Tax Act, the sum of the ordinary depreciation limit for that equipment for advancing recycling businesses, etc. and the special depreciation limit (meaning the amount equivalent to 35 percent of the acquisition cost of that equipment for advancing recycling businesses, etc. (where the total acquisition cost of the equipment for advancing recycling businesses, etc. acquired or manufactured to be used for the designated business carried out in accordance with the certified plan exceeds 2 billion yen, the amount calculated by multiplying 2 billion yen by the ratio of the acquisition cost of the equipment for advancing recycling businesses, etc. put to use for that designated business to that total)).

②The provisions of Article 43, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis where the provisions of the preceding paragraph are applied.

③Beyond what is prescribed in the preceding paragraph, Cabinet Order provides for the necessary particulars concerning the application of the provisions of paragraph (1).