Article 698Procedures for Collection by Stamps of Municipal Non-statutory Ordinary Taxes
第六百九十八条（市町村法定外普通税の証紙徴収の手続）
When a municipality intends to collect a municipal non-statutory ordinary tax by collection by stamps, it must have the taxpayer pay the tax with stamps issued by that municipality. In this case, the municipality may substitute for the stamps by having stamps affixed to documents or other articles certifying that an obligation to pay that municipal non-statutory ordinary tax has arisen, or by affixing a tax-paid seal after receiving payment in cash equivalent to the face value of the stamps.
When a taxpayer has affixed stamps, the municipality or the special collection agent must clearly cancel them, across the paper or other article to which the stamps are affixed and the design of the stamps, with the seal of the municipality or the seal or signature of the special collection agent.
市町村又は特別徴収義務者は、納税者が証紙をはつた場合においては、証紙をはつた紙面その他の物件と証紙の彩紋とにかけて当該市町村の印又は特別徴収義務者の印若しくは署名で判明にこれを消さなければならない。
The handling of the stamps under paragraph (1) must be provided for by the Municipal Ordinance of the municipality.
第一項の証紙の取扱に関しては、当該市町村の条例で定めなければならない。
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special collection agentmachine translation
「特別徴収義務者」
A person obliged to collect a local tax by special collection (特別徴収) and pay it in (Article 1, paragraph 1, item 10).
Defined inArticle 1, paragraph (1), item (x)· applies throughout the law
collection by stampsmachine translation
「証紙徴収」
A local government's having local tax paid with stamps (証紙) it issues, without issuing a tax notice (納税通知書).
Defined inArticle 1, paragraph (1), item (xiii)· applies throughout the law
municipal non-statutory ordinary taxmachine translation
「市町村法定外普通税」
An ordinary tax (普通税) that a municipality levies under Article 5, paragraph 3 by setting up a tax of its own beyond those the Local Tax Act lists.
Short name set inArticle 10-4, 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.