Article 11-2Secondary Tax Liability of Members of General Partnership Companies, etc.
第十一条の二(合名会社等の社員の第二次納税義務)
Where a general partnership company or limited partnership company, or a certified public tax accountant corporation, attorney corporation, registered foreign lawyer corporation, joint corporation of attorneys and registered foreign lawyers, audit corporation, patent attorney corporation, judicial scrivener corporation, certified administrative procedures legal specialist corporation, public consultant on social and labour insurance corporation or land and buildings investigator corporation is delinquent in local government levies, and it is found that the amount to be collected remains insufficient even after carrying out delinquent tax collection procedures on its property, its members (in the case of a limited partnership company and an audit corporation, the unlimited liability members) have secondary tax liability for the local government levies relating to that delinquency. In this case, those members are jointly and severally liable.
合名会社若しくは合資会社又は税理士法人、弁護士法人、外国法事務弁護士法人、弁護士・外国法事務弁護士共同法人、監査法人、弁理士法人、司法書士法人、行政書士法人、社会保険労務士法人若しくは土地家屋調査士法人が地方団体の徴収金を滞納した場合において、その財産につき滞納処分をしてもなおその徴収すべき額に不足すると認められるときは、その社員(合資会社及び監査法人にあつては、無限責任社員)は、当該滞納に係る地方団体の徴収金の第二次納税義務を負う。この場合において、その社員は、連帯してその責めに任ずる。
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local government leviesmachine translation
「地方団体の徴収金」
A local tax (地方税) together with its demand fee (督促手数料), delinquency charge (延滞金), additional charge for understatement (過少申告加算金), additional charge for failure to file (不申告加算金), substantial additional charge (重加算金) and delinquent disposition costs (滞納処分費).
Defined inArticle 1, paragraph (1), item (xiv)· applies throughout the law