居住者は、その有する第六条第一号から第八号まで(減価償却資産の範囲)に掲げる減価償却資産(次条又は第百二十二条(特別な償却率による償却の方法)の規定の適用を受けるもの並びに第百二十条第一項第一号ロ及び第六号(減価償却資産の償却の方法)並びに前条第一項第一号ロ及び第六号に掲げる減価償却資産を除く。)の償却費の額を当該資産の区分に応じて定められている第百二十条第一項第一号から第五号まで又は前条第一項第一号から第五号までに定める償却の方法に代え当該償却の方法以外の償却の方法(同項第三号イに掲げる減価償却資産(第三項において「鉱業用建築物」という。)にあつては、定率法その他これに準ずる方法を除く。以下この項において同じ。)により計算することについて納税地の所轄税務署長の承認を受けた場合には、当該資産のその承認を受けた日の属する年分以後の各年分の償却費の額の計算については、その承認を受けた償却の方法を選定することができる。
In the case where a Resident has obtained the approval of the competent district director with jurisdiction over the place for tax payment to calculate the amount of depreciation allowance for the Resident's Depreciable Assets set forth in Article 6, items (i) through (viii) (Scope of Depreciable Assets) (excluding those to which the following Article or Article 122 (Depreciation Methods Using Special Depreciation Rates) applies, and the Depreciable Assets set forth in Article 120, paragraph (1), item (i), (b) and item (vi) (Depreciation Methods for Depreciable Assets) and in paragraph (1), item (i), (b) and item (vi) of the preceding Article) by a depreciation method other than the depreciation methods specified in Article 120, paragraph (1), items (i) through (v) or paragraph (1), items (i) through (v) of the preceding Article that have been established according to the category of the asset, in place of those depreciation methods (for the Depreciable Assets set forth in item (iii), (a) of that paragraph (referred to as "mining buildings" in paragraph (3)), excluding the Declining-balance Method and methods equivalent to it; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph), the Resident may, for the calculation of the amount of depreciation allowance for each year on or after the year in which the date of that approval falls for that asset, select the depreciation method so approved.