市町村は、前条の規定により特別徴収の方法によつて個人の市町村民税を徴収しようとする場合には、当該年度の初日において同条の納税義務者に対して給与の支払をする者(他の市町村内において給与の支払をする者を含む。)のうち所得税法第百八十三条の規定により給与の支払をする際所得税を徴収して納付する義務がある者を当該市町村の条例により特別徴収義務者として指定し、これに徴収させなければならない。この場合においては、当該市町村の長は、前条第一項本文の規定により特別徴収の方法によつて徴収すべき給与所得に係る所得割額及び均等割額の合算額又はこれに同条第二項本文の規定により特別徴収の方法によつて徴収することとなる給与所得以外の所得に係る所得割額(同条第四項に規定する場合には、同項の規定により読み替えて適用される同条第二項本文の規定により特別徴収の方法によつて徴収することとなる給与所得及び公的年金等に係る所得以外の所得に係る所得割額)を合算した額(以下この条から第三百二十一条の七までにおいて「給与所得に係る特別徴収税額」という。)を特別徴収の方法によつて徴収する旨(第七項から第十一項までにおいて「通知事項」という。)を当該特別徴収義務者及びこれを経由して当該納税義務者に通知しなければならない。
When a municipality intends to collect individual municipal inhabitant tax by the method of special collection pursuant to the preceding Article, it must designate, by Municipal Ordinance of the municipality, as a special collection agent, from among persons who, as of the first day of the fiscal year, pay salary to a person liable for tax referred to in that Article (including a person who pays salary within another municipality), a person who is obligated, when paying salary, to collect and pay income tax under Article 183 of the Income Tax Act, and have that agent collect the tax. In this case, the mayor of the municipality must notify that special collection agent, and through that agent the person liable for tax, to the effect that the total of the income levy amount and the per capita levy amount relating to salary income to be collected by the method of special collection under the main clause of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, or the amount obtained by adding to that total the income levy amount relating to income other than salary income to be collected by the method of special collection under the main clause of paragraph (2) of that Article (in the case prescribed in paragraph (4) of that Article, the income levy amount relating to income other than salary income and income relating to public pension, etc. to be collected by the method of special collection under the main clause of paragraph (2) of that Article as applied with terms replaced pursuant to paragraph (4) of that Article) (hereinafter in this Article through Article 321-7 referred to as the "amount of tax specially collected on salary income"), is to be collected by the method of special collection (referred to as "notified matters" in paragraphs (7) through (11)).