A person who wishes to receive payment of a refund under the provisions of Article 138, paragraph (1) (Refunding Tax Withheld) or Article 139, paragraph (1) or (2) (Refunding of Prepaid Taxes) of the Act must state the following matters in the Tax Return.
the name and location of the bank or post office from which the person wishes to receive payment of that refund (a post office meaning an office of Japan Post Co., Ltd. that conducts the postal counter services prescribed in Article 2 (Definitions) of the Post Office Branch Act (Act No. 213 of 1949) and that conducts bank agency services prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (14) of the Banking Act (Act No. 59 of 1981), with the Postal Savings Bank prescribed in Article 94 (Definitions) of the Postal Service Privatization Act (Act No. 97 of 2005) as its principal bank prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (16) (Definitions, etc.) of the Banking Act);
if, within the amount of that refund, there is an amount equivalent to the amount of tax withheld prescribed in Article 138, paragraph (2) of the Act that has not yet been paid, that amount;
Where a Tax Return containing the statements under the preceding paragraph is submitted, if there is an amount of income tax withheld on Each Class of Income for that year, a detailed statement stating the matters specified by Ministry of Finance Order that explain the withholding of that income tax must be attached to that return form.
A person who has submitted a Tax Return stating the amount listed in paragraph (1), item (ii) must, where the amount of tax withheld prescribed in that item has been paid, submit to the competent district director with jurisdiction over the place for tax payment, without delay, a written notice stating the date of payment, the amount of tax withheld that was paid, and other necessary matters.
Where a Tax Return stating an amount pertaining to a refund prescribed in paragraph (1) has been submitted, the district director must, except where there are grounds to find that amount to be excessive, without delay, perform the procedure for making a refund or Appropriation under the provisions of Article 138, paragraph (1) or Article 139, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Act.
Where there are two or more heirs who wish to receive payment of a refund prescribed in paragraph (1) pertaining to a decedent, if the Tax Return pertaining to that refund is submitted in a single document bearing joint signatures pursuant to the provisions of Article 263, paragraph (2), main clause (Submission of Tax Returns by Heirs), the amount of that refund must be stated for each person in that return form.
第二百六十八条
(還付すべき所得税額の充当の順序)Order of Appropriation of Income Tax to Be Refunded
Where a refund under the provisions of Article 138, paragraph (1) (Refunding Tax Withheld) of the Act (including interest on refund pertaining to it; the same applies in paragraph (3)) is appropriated to unpaid national tax and expenses for the delinquent tax collection procedure, it is to be appropriated in the order of the following items.
if there is unpaid income tax for that year that is to be paid by the submission of an Amended Return or by a Reassessment (excluding the tax amounts listed in the items of Article 120, paragraph (2) (Meaning of Prepaid Taxes) of the Act (hereinafter in this Article referred to as "tax prepayment, etc.")), it is to be appropriated to that income tax;
二
前号の充当をしてもなお還付すべき金額があるときは、その他の未納の国税及び滞納処分費に充当する。
if there is still an amount to be refunded even after the Appropriation under the preceding item, it is to be appropriated to other unpaid national tax and expenses for the delinquent tax collection procedure.
Where a refund under the provisions of Article 139, paragraph (1) or (2) (Refunding of Prepaid Taxes) of the Act (including interest on refund pertaining to it; the same applies in the following paragraph) is appropriated to unpaid national tax and expenses for the delinquent tax collection procedure, it is to be appropriated in the order of the following items.
if there is unpaid income tax for that year that is to be paid by the submission of an Amended Return or by a Reassessment (excluding tax prepayment, etc.), it is to be appropriated to that income tax;
if there is still an amount to be refunded even after the Appropriation under the preceding item and there are unpaid tax prepayment, etc. for that year, it is to be appropriated to those unpaid tax prepayment, etc. In this case, if there are unpaid tax prepayment, etc. with different statutory payment due dates prescribed in Article 2, item (viii) (Definitions) of the Act on General Rules for National Taxes, it is to be appropriated to those obtained by going back sequentially, starting from those among the unpaid tax prepayment, etc. whose statutory payment due date is closest to the date of the refund, until the amount to be refunded is reached;
三
前二号の充当をしてもなお還付すべき金額があるときは、その他の未納の国税及び滞納処分費に充当する。
if there is still an amount to be refunded even after the Appropriations under the preceding two items, it is to be appropriated to other unpaid national tax and expenses for the delinquent tax collection procedure.
Where, for the income tax for that year, there is both a refund under the provisions of Article 138, paragraph (1) of the Act and a refund under the provisions of Article 139, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Act, and those refunds are appropriated to the unpaid income tax for that year, the Appropriation is to be made first from the refund listed in each of the following items according to the category of cases listed in the relevant item.
一
前項第一号に規定する所得税に充当する場合 法第百三十八条第一項の規定による還付金
in the case of Appropriation to the income tax prescribed in item (i) of the preceding paragraph: the refund under the provisions of Article 138, paragraph (1) of the Act;
二
予定納税額等に充当する場合 法第百三十九条第一項又は第二項の規定による還付金
in the case of Appropriation to tax prepayment, etc.: the refund under the provisions of Article 139, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Act.
第二百六十九条
(予納税額に係る還付加算金の額の計算)Calculation of Interest on Refund Pertaining to Prepaid Taxes
Where the amount of interest on refund is calculated for a refund under the provisions of Article 139, paragraph (1) (Refunding of Prepaid Taxes) of the Act, the provisions of Article 139, paragraph (3) of the Act are applied, treating as the prepaid taxes to be refunded prescribed in that paragraph each of the tax prepayment, etc. obtained by going back sequentially, in the order specified in the following items, until reaching the amount of that refund (where that refund is used to make the Appropriation under paragraph (2), item (i) or (ii) of the preceding Article, the amount obtained by deducting the amount of the refund used for that Appropriation), out of the tax prepayment, etc. prescribed in paragraph (1), item (i) of the preceding Article for the year pertaining to the Tax Return prescribed in Article 139, paragraph (1) of the Act (excluding, where there is an amount that has already been made the basis for calculating the amount of interest on refund under Article 139, paragraph (3) or Article 160, paragraph (3) (Refunding of Prepaid Taxes Based on Reassessment or Similar Decision) of the Act, or an amount to be appropriated by a refund under Article 139, paragraph (1) or Article 160, paragraph (1) of the Act, those amounts; hereinafter in this Article referred to as "tax prepayment, etc.").
among the tax prepayment, etc., for those with different statutory payment due dates prescribed in Article 2, item (viii) (Definitions) of the Act on General Rules for National Taxes (hereinafter in this Article referred to as "statutory payment due date"), the one with the later statutory payment due date takes priority;
among the tax prepayment, etc. with the same statutory payment due date, for those with different dates of finalization, the one with the later date of finalization takes priority;
among the tax prepayment, etc. with the same statutory payment due date and date of finalization, for those with different dates of payment, the one with the later date of payment takes priority.