市町村は、国、非課税独立行政法人及び国立大学法人等並びに都道府県、市町村、特別区、これらの組合、財産区、非課税地方独立行政法人(地方独立行政法人(公立大学法人を除く。)であつてその成立の日の前日において現に地方公共団体が行つている業務に相当する業務を当該地方独立行政法人の成立の日以後行うものとして総務省令で定めるもののうちその成立の日の前日において現に地方公共団体が行つている業務に相当する業務のみを当該成立の日以後引き続き行うものをいう。)及び公立大学法人(地方独立行政法人法(平成十五年法律第百十八号)第六十一条に規定する移行型地方独立行政法人でその成立の日の前日において現に設立団体(同法第六条第三項に規定する設立団体をいう。)が行つている業務に相当する業務のみを当該成立の日以後引き続き行うものに限る。)に対しては、特別土地保有税を課することができない。
A municipality may not impose the special land holding tax on the State, tax-exempt incorporated administrative agencies and national university corporations, etc., or on prefectures, municipalities, special wards, unions of these, property wards, tax-exempt local incorporated administrative agencies (meaning, among the local incorporated administrative agencies (excluding public university corporations) specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as carrying out, on and after the day of their establishment, operations equivalent to those that a local government was actually carrying out on the day before the day of their establishment, those that continue to carry out, on and after that day of establishment, only operations equivalent to those that a local government was actually carrying out on the day before the day of their establishment) and public university corporations (limited to a transitional local incorporated administrative agency prescribed in Article 61 of the Local Independent Administrative Agency Act (Act No. 118 of 2003) that continues to carry out, on and after the day of its establishment, only operations equivalent to those that the establishing body (meaning the establishing body prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (3) of that Act) was actually carrying out on the day before the day of its establishment).