Article 89-2Exemption from Tax for Gasoline Consumed for the Manufacture of Petrochemical Products, etc.
第八十九条の二（石油化学製品の製造のため消費される揮発油の免税等）
In the case where the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Gasoline Tax Act or Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Local Gasoline Tax Act apply to the consumption of gasoline for a use specified by Cabinet Order for the manufacture of ethylene or other petrochemical products specified by Cabinet Order, when the manufacturer of those products uses that gasoline for that consumption, the gasoline tax and local gasoline tax on that consumption are exempted.
エチレンその他の政令で定める石油化学製品の製造のため政令で定める用途に揮発油を消費することについて揮発油税法第五条第一項又は地方揮発油税法第五条第一項の規定の適用がある場合において、当該製品の製造者が、当該揮発油を当該消費に充てるときは、その消費に係る揮発油税及び地方揮発油税を免除する。
The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply in the case where the manufacturer falling under the provisions of that paragraph does not attach, to the return under the provisions of Article 10, paragraph (1) of the Gasoline Tax Act for the month that includes the day on which it consumed that gasoline, a written statement concerning the consumption of that gasoline and a document stating the matters specified by Cabinet Order concerning the manufacture of the products manufactured by consuming that gasoline.
When a district director finds it necessary for control purposes, the district director may order a manufacturer falling under the provisions of paragraph (1) to store the gasoline to be consumed for the use prescribed in that paragraph and the products manufactured by consuming it separately from other gasoline and products, respectively, and to enter in books, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, matters concerning the consumption of the gasoline to be consumed for that use and matters concerning the manufacture, storage or sale of the products manufactured by consuming that gasoline.
In the case where, out of petrochemical products manufactured through the application of the provisions of paragraph (1) (including petrochemical products manufactured using those petrochemical products as raw materials), benzol or other products specified by Cabinet Order (referred to as a "specified petrochemical product" in this Article) are consumed at the manufacturing site of those specified petrochemical products for a use other than the manufacture of phenol or synthetic rubber or other uses specified by Cabinet Order (referred to as a "designated use" in this paragraph), or are shipped out (excluding shipment directly to a foreign country; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) from that manufacturing site, the Gasoline Tax Act (excluding the provisions of Chapters IV and V (excluding the provisions of Article 25, item (i) and Article 26) and the penal provisions relating to those provisions) and the Local Gasoline Tax Act apply by deeming the manufacturer of those specified petrochemical products to have consumed at that manufacturing site, or shipped out from that manufacturing site, at the time of that consumption or shipment, gasoline in the quantity calculated pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order as having been consumed for the manufacture of the specified petrochemical products relating to that consumption or shipment; provided, however, that this does not apply in the case where that shipment is a shipment to a place where they are used for a designated use (including a place for storing specified petrochemical products to be used for a designated use or specified petrochemical products to be used for the purpose of export or other purposes specified by Cabinet Order).
第一項の規定の適用を受けて製造された石油化学製品（当該石油化学製品を原料として製造された石油化学製品を含む。）のうちベンゾールその他の政令で定めるもの（以下この条において「特定石油化学製品」という。）が、当該特定石油化学製品の製造場において、フェノール若しくは合成ゴムの製造用その他の政令で定める用途（以下この項において「指定用途」という。）以外の用途に消費をされ、又は当該製造場から移出（直接外国に向けてする移出を除く。以下この条において同じ。）をされた場合には、当該特定石油化学製品の製造者が、当該消費又は移出をした時に、当該消費又は移出に係る特定石油化学製品の製造のため消費されたものとして政令で定めるところにより算出した数量の揮発油を当該製造場において消費し、又は当該製造場から移出したものとみなして、揮発油税法（第四章及び第五章の規定（第二十五条第一号及び第二十六条の規定を除く。）並びにこれらの規定に係る罰則を除く。）及び地方揮発油税法を適用する。ただし、当該移出が指定用途に供する場所（指定用途に供する特定石油化学製品又は輸出の目的その他の政令で定める目的に充てるための特定石油化学製品を蔵置するための場所を含む。）への移出である場合には、この限りでない。
In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the manufacturer referred to in that paragraph is not a manufacturer of gasoline, it is deemed to be a manufacturer of gasoline, and if the manufacturing site referred to in that paragraph is not a manufacturing site of gasoline, it is deemed to be a manufacturing site of gasoline.
The provisions of the proviso to paragraph (4) apply only in the case where the manufacturer of specified petrochemical products that has made the shipment out referred to in the proviso to that paragraph submits, for each of its manufacturing sites, every month (excluding a month in which there is no such shipment out from that manufacturing site), pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, a document stating the quantity of specified petrochemical products shipped out from that manufacturing site during that month and other matters specified by Cabinet Order to the district director with jurisdiction over the location of that manufacturing site by the last day of the following month, and attaches to that document the documents specified by Cabinet Order as documents proving that those specified petrochemical products fall under the provisions of the proviso to that paragraph and that they have been brought into that place.
The provisions of Article 14, paragraph (4) of the Gasoline Tax Act apply mutatis mutandis to the case referred to in the preceding paragraph. In this case, the phrase "paragraph (1)" in paragraph (4) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the proviso to Article 89-2, paragraph (4) of the Act on Special Measures Concerning Taxation"; the term "gasoline" is deemed to be replaced with "specified petrochemical products"; the phrase "the place specified in the items of that paragraph" is deemed to be replaced with "the place prescribed in the proviso to that paragraph"; and the phrase "paragraph (2)" is deemed to be replaced with "paragraph (6) of that Article".
The provisions of Article 14, paragraphs (6), (7) (excluding the part concerning the reason for bringing in) and (8) of the Gasoline Tax Act apply mutatis mutandis to the case where specified petrochemical products falling under the provisions of the proviso to paragraph (4) have been brought in. In this case, the phrase "paragraph (1)" in the provisions of paragraphs (6) through (8) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the proviso to Article 89-2, paragraph (4) of the Act on Special Measures Concerning Taxation"; the term "gasoline" is deemed to be replaced with "specified petrochemical products"; the phrase "of that paragraph" is deemed to be replaced with "of the proviso to that paragraph"; and the phrase "the place specified in the items of that paragraph" is deemed to be replaced with "the place prescribed in the proviso to that paragraph".
A person who has brought in the specified petrochemical products referred to in the preceding paragraph, to whom the provisions of Article 14, paragraphs (6), (7) (excluding the part concerning the reason for bringing in) and (8) of the Gasoline Tax Act apply mutatis mutandis pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, is deemed to be the person prescribed in paragraph (7) of that Article, and the provisions of Article 28, item (iii) and Article 29 of that Act apply to that person.
The provisions of Article 13-2, Article 24 and Article 25, item (ii) of the Gasoline Tax Act, Article 14-2 of the Local Gasoline Tax Act, and Article 74-5, item (ii) (excluding (d)), Articles 74-8 through 74-11 and Article 74-13 of the Act on General Rules for National Taxes apply mutatis mutandis to manufacturers and sellers of specified petrochemical products, and the provisions of Article 74-5, item (ii), (d), Article 74-8 and Article 74-13 of that Act apply mutatis mutandis to a person found to be obliged to transfer raw materials to a manufacturer or seller of specified petrochemical products or any other person found to have transactions with a manufacturer or seller of specified petrochemical products in connection with that person's business, respectively. In this case, the phrase "Article 3 and Articles 10 through 12-2" in Article 13-2 of the Gasoline Tax Act is deemed to be replaced with "Article 89-2, paragraph (4) of the Act on Special Measures Concerning Taxation"; the phrase "of gasoline" in Article 24 of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "of specified petrochemical products", the phrase "or seller, a special filer, or a person who has brought gasoline prescribed in Article 16-3, paragraph (1) or Article 16-5, paragraph (1) into the place prescribed in those provisions" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "or seller", and the phrase ", sale or taking out of a bonded area" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "or sale"; the phrase "Articles 5 and 7" in Article 14-2 of the Local Gasoline Tax Act is deemed to be replaced with "Article 89-2, paragraph (4) of the Act on Special Measures Concerning Taxation"; and the phrase "gasoline (meaning gasoline prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) (Definitions) of that Act (including anything deemed to be gasoline pursuant to the provisions of Article 6 (Cases Deemed to Be Gasoline, etc.) of that Act); the same applies hereinafter in this item)" in Article 74-5, item (ii), (a) of the Act on General Rules for National Taxes and the term "gasoline" in (b) and (c) of that item are deemed to be replaced with "specified petrochemical products".
揮発油税法第十三条の二、第二十四条及び第二十五条第二号並びに地方揮発油税法第十四条の二並びに国税通則法第七十四条の五第二号（ニを除く。）、第七十四条の八から第七十四条の十一まで及び第七十四条の十三の規定は特定石油化学製品の製造者及び販売業者について、同法第七十四条の五第二号ニ、第七十四条の八及び第七十四条の十三の規定は特定石油化学製品の製造者又は販売業者に原料を譲渡する義務があると認められる者その他自己の事業に関し特定石油化学製品の製造者又は販売業者と取引があると認められる者について、それぞれ準用する。この場合において、揮発油税法第十三条の二中「第三条及び第十条から第十二条の二まで」とあるのは「租税特別措置法第八十九条の二第四項」と、同法第二十四条中「揮発油の」とあるのは「特定石油化学製品の」と、「若しくは販売業者、特例申告者又は第十六条の三第一項若しくは第十六条の五第一項に規定する揮発油をこれらの規定に規定する場所に移入した者」とあるのは「又は販売業者」と、「、販売又は保税地域からの引取り」とあるのは「又は販売」と、地方揮発油税法第十四条の二中「第五条及び第七条」とあるのは「租税特別措置法第八十九条の二第四項」と、国税通則法第七十四条の五第二号イ中「揮発油（同法第二条第一項（定義）に規定する揮発油（同法第六条（揮発油等とみなす場合）の規定により揮発油とみなされる物を含む。）をいう。以下この号において同じ。）」とあり、並びに同号ロ及びハ中「揮発油」とあるのは「特定石油化学製品」と読み替えるものとする。
A manufacturer or seller of specified petrochemical products as referred to in the preceding paragraph (including a person who succeeds to the obligation to keep books pursuant to the provisions of Article 25, item (ii) of the Gasoline Tax Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph), to whom the provisions of Article 24 of the Gasoline Tax Act and Article 74-5, item (ii) (excluding (d)) of the Act on General Rules for National Taxes apply mutatis mutandis pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, is deemed to be the person prescribed in Article 24 of the Gasoline Tax Act and the provisions of Article 28, item (vi) and Article 29 of that Act and Article 128 (limited to the part of item (ii) relating to Article 74-5, item (ii), (a) through (c) of that Act and the part of item (iii) relating to item (ii), (a) of that Article) and Article 130 of the Act on General Rules for National Taxes apply to that person, and a person found to be obliged to transfer raw materials to a manufacturer or seller of specified petrochemical products as referred to in that paragraph or any other person found to have transactions with a manufacturer or seller of specified petrochemical products in connection with that person's business, to whom the provisions of Article 74-5, item (ii), (d) of that Act apply mutatis mutandis pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, is deemed to be the person prescribed in (d) of that item and the provisions of Article 128 (limited to the part of items (ii) and (iii) relating to Article 74-5, item (ii), (d) of that Act) and Article 130 of that Act apply to that person, respectively.
前項の規定により揮発油税法第二十四条及び国税通則法第七十四条の五第二号（ニを除く。）の規定が準用される同項の特定石油化学製品の製造者及び販売業者（同項の規定により準用される揮発油税法第二十五条第二号の規定により記帳の義務を承継する者を含む。）は揮発油税法第二十四条に規定する者とみなして同法第二十八条第六号及び第二十九条並びに国税通則法第百二十八条（第二号中同法第七十四条の五第二号イからハまでに係る部分及び第三号中同条第二号イに係る部分に限る。）及び第百三十条の規定を、同項の規定により同法第七十四条の五第二号ニの規定が準用される同項の特定石油化学製品の製造者又は販売業者に原料を譲渡する義務があると認められる者その他自己の事業に関し特定石油化学製品の製造者又は販売業者と取引があると認められる者は同号ニに規定する者とみなして同法第百二十八条（第二号及び第三号中同法第七十四条の五第二号ニに係る部分に限る。）及び第百三十条の規定を、それぞれ適用する。
In the case where the place prescribed in the proviso to paragraph (4) into which specified petrochemical products falling under the provisions of the proviso to that paragraph have been brought falls under any of the following places, if the manufacturer of specified petrochemical products that has made the shipment out referred to in the proviso to that paragraph has, with regard to those specified petrochemical products, submitted the document under the provisions of paragraph (6) for the month that includes the day on which it made that shipment out within the time limit prescribed in that paragraph, and has, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, clarified the details showing that those specified petrochemical products fall under the provisions of the proviso to paragraph (4) and that they have been brought into that place, the provisions of the proviso to paragraph (4) apply notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (6):
the place into which the specified petrochemical products have been brought, in the case where the person who shipped out those specified petrochemical products and the person who brought those specified petrochemical products into that place are the same;
当該特定石油化学製品を移出した者と当該特定石油化学製品を当該場所に移入した者が同一である場合における当該移入をした場所
beyond what falls under the provisions of the preceding item, a place into which the specified petrochemical products shipped out by the manufacturer of those specified petrochemical products are continuously brought, for which that manufacturer has obtained, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, the approval of the district director with jurisdiction over the location of the manufacturing site from which it makes that shipment out.
In the case referred to in Article 14, paragraph (7) of the Gasoline Tax Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (8), if the place prescribed in that paragraph is a place into which the specified petrochemical products prescribed in that paragraph are continuously brought, and the person bringing in those specified petrochemical products has obtained, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, the approval of the district director with jurisdiction over the location of that place, the submission of the documents prescribed in that paragraph is not required, notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph.
In the case where an application for the approval referred to in paragraph (12), item (ii) or the preceding paragraph has been filed, when it is found that the facts prescribed in those provisions do not exist, or when there are circumstances in which the person who filed the application or the place to which the application relates is found to be inappropriate for securing gasoline tax and local gasoline tax, the district director may refuse to grant the approval.
When it is found, with regard to a person who has obtained the approval referred to in paragraph (12), item (ii) or paragraph (13), that the facts prescribed in those provisions have ceased to exist, or when circumstances have arisen in which that person is found to be inappropriate for securing gasoline tax and local gasoline tax, the district director may revoke the approval.
When a person who has obtained the approval referred to in paragraph (12), item (ii) or paragraph (13) no longer needs to receive the application of those provisions, the person must, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, submit a written notification stating that fact to the district director who granted that approval. In this case, when the written notification has been submitted, the approval ceases to be effective.
Beyond what is provided for in paragraph (12) through the preceding paragraph, necessary matters concerning the application of the provisions of paragraph (12) or (13) are specified by Cabinet Order.