市町村は、次の各号に掲げる者が、当該各号に定める土地の譲渡をしようとする場合において、市町村長が当該事実を認定したところに基づいて定める日(以下この項において「事実認定日」という。)から二年を経過する日までの期間(大規模な宅地の造成でその造成に要する期間が通常二年を超えることその他その期間を延長することにつきやむを得ない理由があると市町村長が認める場合には、納税義務者の申請に基づき市町村長が定める相当の期間とし、第二号又は第三号に定める土地の譲渡(第二号に定める土地の譲渡にあつては、土地収用法第八十二条の規定により土地をもつて損失を補償するために行われる場合の土地の譲渡を除く。)で、当該土地の譲渡に係る事実認定日がこれらの号に定める日後の日であるもの(第三項において「特定譲渡」という。)にあつては、当該事実認定日からこれらの号に定める日以後二年を経過する日までの期間とする。以下この項において「納税義務の免除に係る期間」という。)内に当該土地の譲渡をし、かつ、当該土地の譲渡があつたことにつき市町村長の確認を受けたときは、当該土地に係る特別土地保有税に係る地方団体の徴収金(納税義務の免除に係る期間に係るものに限る。)に係る納税義務を免除するものとする。
If a person listed in each of the following items intends to transfer the land specified in the relevant item, transfers that land within the period ending on the day on which two years elapse from a day determined by the mayor of the municipality on the basis of that mayor's finding of that fact (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "fact-recognition date") (or, where the mayor of the municipality finds that the period required for developing large-scale building land ordinarily exceeds two years, or that there is some other unavoidable reason for extending that period, a reasonable period determined by the mayor on the application of the person liable for tax; and, for a transfer of land specified in item (ii) or (iii) (excluding, for a transfer of land specified in item (ii), a transfer made to compensate for a loss with land under Article 82 of the Expropriation of Land Act) where the fact-recognition date for the transfer of that land is a day after the day specified in those items (referred to as a "specified transfer" in paragraph (3)), the period from that fact-recognition date to the day on which two years elapse after the day specified in those items; hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "period for exemption from tax liability"), and receives confirmation from the mayor of the municipality that the transfer of that land has taken place, the municipality is to exempt the person from the tax liability relating to the local government levies relating to the special land holding tax on that land (limited to those relating to the period for exemption from tax liability).