Article 317-4Offenses Concerning False Returns Pertaining to Municipal Inhabitant Tax
第三百十七条の四（市町村民税に係る虚偽の申告に関する罪）
Where a person has submitted a return required to be submitted under Article 317-2, paragraphs (1) through (5) with a false statement in it, or has made a false declaration of the matters to be declared under paragraph (8) or (9) of that Article, the person who committed the violation is to be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen.
第三百十七条の二第一項から第五項までの規定により提出すべき申告書に虚偽の記載をして提出したとき、又は同条第八項若しくは第九項の規定により申告すべき事項について虚偽の申告をしたときは、その違反行為をした者は、一年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。
Where a representative of a corporation (including an administrator of an association or foundation without juridical personality), or an agent, employee or other worker of a corporation or person, has committed the violation under the preceding paragraph in connection with the business or property of that corporation or person, in addition to punishing the offender, the fine prescribed in that paragraph is to be imposed on that corporation or person.
Where the provisions of the preceding paragraph apply to an association or foundation without juridical personality, in addition to the representative or administrator of the association or foundation without juridical personality representing it in its procedural acts, the provisions of laws and regulations concerning criminal proceedings in the case where a corporation is the defendant or suspect apply mutatis mutandis.
人格のない社団等について前項の規定の適用がある場合には、その代表者又は管理人がその訴訟行為につき当該人格のない社団等を代表するほか、法人を被告人又は被疑者とする場合の刑事訴訟に関する法律の規定を準用する。
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fine
罰金
A criminal punishment of paying money to the state, of 10,000 yen or more, or less where it is reduced (Penal Code, Article 15). It ranks below imprisonment (拘禁刑) and above penal detention (拘留) and a petty fine (科料) (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). A person who cannot pay it in full is held in a workhouse (労役場) for one day to two years, or up to three years where fines are imposed together, a period set when the sentence is passed (Article 18, paragraphs (1), (3) and (4)); not within thirty days of the sentence becoming final without the person's consent (paragraph (5)). If it is not enforced for three years after the sentence becomes final, the person is released from it by prescription (Articles 31 and 32, item (v)); the three years do not run while its execution is suspended under law or the person is abroad, and an act of execution interrupts them (Articles 33 and 34, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 15, 18, 31 to 34 as a reference.
imprisonment
拘禁刑
The punishment of being held in a penal institution (刑事施設), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years (Penal Code, Article 12, paragraphs (1) and (2)); a fixed term can be raised to thirty years where the punishment is aggravated, or cut below one month where it is reduced (Article 14, paragraph (2)). To help the person reform and rehabilitate, they may be made to do work or given guidance (Article 12, paragraph (3)). It ranks below the death penalty and above a fine (罰金) among the principal punishments (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). It replaced imprisonment with work (懲役) and imprisonment without work (禁錮) when the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) came into force (Act No. 67 of 2022, Article 2), and a person sentenced to either is treated, for the rules on a person's qualifications, as sentenced to imprisonment for the same term (Act No. 68 of 2022, Article 443, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 12, 14, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Art. 443 as a reference.