Changes on (Act No. 2 of 2026)
A municipality may not impose fixed assets tax if, for the same person, the amount that is to be the tax base of fixed assets tax imposed on land, houses or depreciable assets owned by the person within the area of the municipality is less than 300,000 yen for land, 200,000 yen for houses, or 1,500,000 yen for depreciable assets; provided, however, that if there is a need on fiscal or other grounds, the municipality may impose fixed assets tax as provided by a Municipal Ordinance of the municipality even if the amount is less than 300,000 yen, 200,000 yen or 1,500,000 yen, respectively.
市町村は、同一の者について当該市町村の区域内におけるその者の所有に係る土地、家屋又は償却資産に対して課する固定資産税の課税標準となるべき額が土地にあつては三十万円、家屋にあつては二十万円、償却資産にあつては百五十万円に満たない場合においては、固定資産税を課することができない。ただし、財政上その他特別の必要がある場合においては、当該市町村の条例の定めるところによつて、その額がそれぞれ三十万円、二十万円又は百五十万円に満たないときであつても、固定資産税を課することができる。
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「土地」
Rice paddies, upland fields, building land, salt fields, mineral spring sites (鉱泉地), ponds and marshes, forests, pastures, wilderness (原野) and any other land, for the special land holding tax (特別土地保有税).
Defined inArticle 585, paragraph (2)
Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance
条例
A rule a local government makes for itself: a prefecture (都道府県), a city, town or village (市町村), or one of Tokyo's special wards (特別区) (Local Autonomy Act, Articles 1-3, 281 and 283). Its assembly (議会), whose members the residents elect, passes it (Articles 89 and 96, paragraph (1), item (i)), and its head — the governor or the mayor (Article 139) — promulgates it, that is, makes it public so that it can take effect (Article 16). The Constitution lets local governments make them within the limits of Acts (Constitution, Article 94), and one may not go against the national laws and regulations (法令), such as Acts, Cabinet Orders (政令) and Ministerial Orders (省令) (Local Autonomy Act, Article 14, paragraph (1)). Unless national laws and regulations provide otherwise, a local government can impose a duty or restrict a right only by one of these (Article 14, paragraph (2)), and it may write into one penalties for breaking it, within limits the Local Autonomy Act sets (Article 14, paragraph (3)). It is made for that local government's own affairs (Article 2, paragraph (2) and Article 14, paragraph (1)), so the same matter can be handled differently from one place to the next. It is a local rule, not a national one: an "ordinance" in the name of a national rule, such as an Ordinance for Enforcement of an Act, is usually a Ministerial Order (省令) or another national instrument.
Written by AI using Constitution, Art. 94 and Local Autonomy Act, Arts. 1-3, 2, 14, 16, 89, 96, 139, 281, 283 as a reference.