事業を行う法人の各事業年度開始の日前に開始した事業年度(当該各事業年度終了の日以前に行われた当該法人を合併法人(合併により被合併法人(合併によりその有する資産及び負債の移転を行つた法人をいう。以下この節において同じ。)から資産及び負債の移転を受けた法人をいう。以下この節において同じ。)とする適格合併(法人税法第二条第十二号の八に規定する適格合併をいう。以下この節において同じ。)に係る被合併法人の当該適格合併の日前に開始した事業年度(以下この項において「被合併法人事業年度」という。)を含む。)の付加価値割、資本割、所得割又は収入割につき道府県知事が更正をした場合において、当該更正につき次項の規定の適用があつたときは、当該更正に係る同項に規定する仮装経理事業税額(既に第三項又は第七項の規定により還付すべきこととなつた金額及びこの項の規定により控除された金額を除く。)は、当該各事業年度(当該更正の日(当該更正が被合併法人事業年度の付加価値割、資本割、所得割又は収入割につき当該適格合併の日前にしたものである場合には、当該適格合併の日)以後に終了する事業年度に限る。)の付加価値割額、資本割額、所得割額又は収入割額から控除するものとする。
Where a prefectural governor has made a reassessment of the value-added levy, capital levy, income levy or revenue levy for a business year that began before the first day of each business year of a corporation that carries on business (including the business year of the merged corporation relating to a qualified merger (meaning a qualified merger prescribed in Article 2, item (xii)-8 of the Corporation Tax Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Section) carried out on or before the last day of that business year with that corporation as the merging corporation (meaning a corporation that has had assets and liabilities transferred to it by a merged corporation (meaning a corporation that has transferred its assets and liabilities through a merger; the same applies hereinafter in this Section) through a merger; the same applies hereinafter in this Section) that began before the date of that qualified merger (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "business year of the acquired corporation")), and the following paragraph has applied to that reassessment, the enterprise tax paid on fictitious accounting prescribed in that paragraph relating to that reassessment (excluding the amount already to be refunded pursuant to paragraph (3) or (7) and the amount deducted pursuant to this paragraph) is to be deducted from the value-added levy amount, capital levy amount, income levy amount or revenue levy amount of that business year (limited to a business year ending on or after the day of that reassessment (or, where that reassessment was made, with respect to the value-added levy, capital levy, income levy or revenue levy for the business year of the acquired corporation, before the date of that qualified merger, the date of that qualified merger)).