事業を行う法人(清算中の法人を除く。以下この条、次条及び第七十二条の二十八において同じ。)は、次条の規定に該当する場合を除くほか、各事業年度に係る所得割等(第七十二条の二第一項第一号イに掲げる法人の付加価値割、資本割及び所得割又は同号ロに掲げる法人の所得割をいう。以下この節において同じ。)又は収入割等(同項第二号に掲げる事業を行う法人の収入割、同項第三号イに掲げる法人若しくは同項第四号に掲げる事業を行う法人の収入割、付加価値割及び資本割又は同項第三号ロに掲げる法人の収入割及び所得割をいう。以下この節において同じ。)を各事業年度終了の日から二月以内(外国法人が第七十二条の九第一項に規定する納税管理人を定めないでこの法律の施行地に事務所又は事業所を有しないこととなる場合(同条第二項の認定を受けた場合を除く。)には、当該事業年度終了の日から二月を経過した日の前日と当該事務所又は事業所を有しないこととなる日とのいずれか早い日まで。第七十二条の二十八第一項において同じ。)に、確定した決算に基づき、事務所又は事業所所在の道府県に申告納付しなければならない。
A corporation conducting a business (excluding a corporation in liquidation; the same applies hereinafter in this Article, the following Article and Article 72-28) must, except where it falls under the following Article, file and pay, to the prefecture in which its office or place of business is located, on the basis of its finalized accounts, the income levy, etc. for each business year (meaning the value-added levy, capital levy and income levy of a corporation listed in Article 72-2, paragraph (1), item (i), (a), or the income levy of a corporation listed in (b) of that item; the same applies hereinafter in this Section) or the revenue levy, etc. (meaning the revenue levy of a corporation conducting a business listed in item (ii) of that paragraph, the revenue levy, value-added levy and capital levy of a corporation listed in item (iii), (a) of that paragraph or a corporation conducting a business listed in item (iv) of that paragraph, or the revenue levy and income levy of a corporation listed in item (iii), (b) of that paragraph; the same applies hereinafter in this Section), within two months from the last day of each business year (where a foreign corporation, without appointing a tax agent prescribed in Article 72-9, paragraph (1), comes to have no office or place of business in the area where this Act is enforced (excluding where it has received the certification under paragraph (2) of that Article), by the earlier of the day preceding the day on which two months have elapsed from the last day of that business year and the day on which it comes to have no such office or place of business; the same applies in Article 72-28, paragraph (1)).