A person who should have submitted a return filed by the due date (including a person who was able to submit a return under Article 123, paragraph (1) (Filing Tax Returns Showing Losses), Article 125, paragraph (3) (Filing a Tax Return Showing Losses If the Taxpayer Has Died Partway Through the Year) or Article 127, paragraph (3) (Filing a Tax Return Showing Losses If the Taxpayer Will Become Absent From Japan Partway Through the Year) of the Income Tax Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 166 (Application Mutatis Mutandis to Nonresidents) of that Act) but did not submit that return within the time limit for its submission, and the heirs of those persons or any other person who has succeeded to all of the rights and obligations included in the property of those persons (in the case of a corporate split, limited to the corporation that succeeds to the liability of the split corporation to pay national taxes pursuant to the provisions of Article 7-2, paragraph (4) (Succession to the Obligation to Pay National Tax Pertaining to a Trust))) may submit a tax return to the district director even after the time limit for submission, until a determination is made under the provisions of Article 25 (Determination).

A tax return submitted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is referred to as a "return filed after the due date."

A return filed after the due date must state the matters required to be stated in a return filed by the due date for the national tax to which the return pertains, and, if there are documents required to be attached to that return filed by the due date, those documents must be attached to it.