Article 376Offense of False Statements Relating to Delinquent Tax Collection Procedures for Fixed Assets Tax Following the Example of the National Tax Collection Act
第三百七十六条（国税徴収法の例による固定資産税に係る滞納処分に関する虚偽の陳述の罪）
In the case of Article 373, paragraph (7), a person who makes a false statement on a matter to be stated to the mayor of the municipality by following the example of the provisions of Article 99-2 of the National Tax Collection Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 109, paragraph (4) of that Act) is punished by imprisonment for not more than six months or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen.
第三百七十三条第七項の場合において、国税徴収法第九十九条の二（同法第百九条第四項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定の例により市町村長に対して陳述すべき事項について虚偽の陳述をした者は、六月以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。
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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.