Where all or part of the enterprise tax on the business conducted by a corporation has been evaded by deception or other wrongful acts, a representative of the corporation (including an individual who is a trustee of a trust subject to corporate taxation; the same applies in paragraph (3)), agent, employee or other worker who committed the violation is to be punished by imprisonment for not more than 10 years or a fine of not more than 10,000,000 yen, or both.
If the amount of tax evaded as referred to in the preceding paragraph exceeds 10,000,000 yen, the amount of the fine referred to in that paragraph may, in light of the circumstances, notwithstanding that paragraph, be an amount exceeding 10,000,000 yen and not exceeding the amount of the tax evaded.
In addition to what is provided for in paragraph (1), where all or part of the enterprise tax on the business conducted by a corporation has been evaded by failing to file, within the deadline for filing the return prescribed in the relevant paragraph, a return under Article 72-25, paragraph (1), Article 72-28, paragraph (1) or Article 72-29, paragraph (1), (3) or (5), a representative, agent, employee or other worker of the corporation who committed the violation is to be punished by imprisonment for not more than five years or a fine of not more than 5,000,000 yen, or both.
第一項に規定するもののほか、第七十二条の二十五第一項、第七十二条の二十八第一項又は第七十二条の二十九第一項、第三項若しくは第五項の規定による申告書を当該各項に規定する申告書の提出期限内に提出しないことにより、法人の行う事業に対する事業税の全部又は一部を免れた場合には、法人の代表者、代理人、使用人その他の従業者で、その違反行為をした者は、五年以下の拘禁刑若しくは五百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。
If the amount of tax evaded as referred to in the preceding paragraph exceeds 5,000,000 yen, the amount of the fine referred to in that paragraph may, in light of the circumstances, notwithstanding that paragraph, be an amount exceeding 5,000,000 yen and not exceeding the amount of the tax evaded.
Where a representative of a corporation, or an agent, employee or other worker has committed a violation set forth in paragraph (1) or (3) in connection with the business or property of that corporation, in addition to punishing the offender, the fine prescribed in the relevant paragraph is to be imposed on that corporation.
The period of prescription in the case where a fine is imposed on a corporation or person for a violation set forth in paragraph (1) or (3) pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is governed by the period of prescription for the offenses under those paragraphs.
When paragraph (5) applies to an association or foundation without juridical personality, its representative or administrator represents that association or foundation without juridical personality in its procedural acts, and in addition, the provisions of laws and regulations on 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第五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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trust subject to corporate taxationmachine translation
「法人課税信託」
A trust subject to corporate taxation as defined in Article 2, item (xxix)-2 of the Corporation Tax Act (Act No. 34 of 1965).
Defined inArticle 72-2, paragraph (4)· applies only in this section
returnmachine translation
「申告書」
From Article 72-32 to the end of its subsection on corporations' enterprise tax (事業税), the returns under Articles 72-25, 72-26, 72-28 and 72-29.
Short name set inArticle 72-32, paragraph (1)· applies only in this subsection
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.