①Where a business operator that transfers liquor or other goods specified by Cabinet Order (referred to as "designated goods" in this Article) (meaning a business operator prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the Consumption Tax Act (excluding a business operator exempted from the obligation to pay consumption tax pursuant to the main clause of Article 9, paragraph (1) of that Act); the same applies hereinafter up to Article 86-2) or a person that takes designated goods out of a bonded area transfers, or takes out of a bonded area, designated goods for which it has obtained, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, the approval of the director-general of the customs house having jurisdiction over the location of the port at which they are to be loaded (meaning an open port, customs airport, or closed port prescribed in items (xi) through (xiii) of Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Customs Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article, Article 87-5, and Article 88-3), in order to load them, as ship's stores or aircraft stores (meaning ship's stores or aircraft stores prescribed in item (ix) or item (x) of that paragraph; the same applies in Article 87-5 and Article 88-3), onto a Japanese vessel (including a pelagic fishing vessel or any other vessel equivalent thereto that is specified by Cabinet Order) or aircraft that travels between Japan and foreign countries (referred to as an "ocean-going vessel or aircraft, etc." in this Article, Article 87-5, and Article 88-3), the Consumption Tax Act and the Act on Collection, etc. of National Consumption Tax Imposed on Imported Goods apply, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Finance, by deeming the loading onto that ocean-going vessel or aircraft, etc. to be an export or a loading onto a foreign vessel or aircraft (meaning the loading referred to in Article 12, paragraph (1) of the Act on Collection, etc. of National Consumption Tax Imposed on Imported Goods (Act No. 37 of 1955); the same applies in Article 87-5 and Article 88-3).

②Where, out of designated goods loaded onto an ocean-going vessel or aircraft, etc. under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, those transferred by a business operator first come to fall under any of the cases listed in the following items (excluding the case where they are transshipped onto another ocean-going vessel or aircraft, etc. with the approval of the director-general of the customs house having jurisdiction over the location of the port at which that ocean-going vessel or aircraft, etc. has called, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, and other cases specified by Cabinet Order), the Consumption Tax Act applies by deeming the holder of those designated goods to take out of a bonded area the designated goods specified in each of those items to which the official assessment system prescribed in Article 6-2, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Customs Act applies. In this case, the place for tax payment of consumption tax on those designated goods is to be the location of the place where those designated goods came to fall under the case listed in each of those items, and the tax base of those designated goods is to be, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 28, paragraph (4) of that Act, the amount of consideration for the transfer (meaning the amount of consideration prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article; the same applies in Article 86-6, paragraph (1)) at the time when those designated goods were transferred by the business operator under the provisions of the preceding paragraph:

③In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, where an authorized importer or authorized consigning importer prescribed in Article 7-2, paragraph (1) of the Customs Act files with a director-general of a customs house the return referred to in Article 47, paragraph (2) of the Consumption Tax Act pertaining to the designated goods referred to in the preceding paragraph (excluding a return pertaining to goods specified by Cabinet Order), it may file that return with the director-general of any customs house. In this case, the place for tax payment of consumption tax is to be, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the location of the customs house to which the director-general of the customs house with whom that return was filed belongs.

①Where a business operator has made a taxable transfer, etc. of assets (meaning a taxable transfer, etc. of assets prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (ix) of the Consumption Tax Act, excluding one that falls under a specified transfer, etc. of assets prescribed in item (viii)-2 of that paragraph; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph, the following paragraph, and Article 86-6, paragraph (3)) to a foreign embassy, legation, consulate, or any other equivalent institution located in Japan (referred to as an "embassy, etc." in this Article) or to a foreign ambassador, minister, consul, or any other equivalent person dispatched to Japan (referred to as an "ambassador, etc." in this Article), if that foreign embassy, etc. or ambassador, etc. acquires or borrows assets pertaining to that taxable transfer, etc. of assets, or receives the provision of services pertaining to that taxable transfer, etc. of assets, as necessary for performing diplomatic, consular, or other duties, by the method specified by Cabinet Order, consumption tax is exempted for that taxable transfer, etc. of assets; provided, however, that with regard to the embassy, etc. or ambassador, etc. of a country that places restrictions on the exemption from taxes similar to consumption tax for assets acquired or borrowed, or services received, by a Japanese embassy, etc. located in a foreign country or a Japanese ambassador, etc. dispatched to a foreign country, this is subject to reciprocity.

②The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply if the business operator that has made the taxable transfer, etc. of assets referred to in that paragraph does not preserve, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, documents or electronic or magnetic records (meaning records made in an electronic form, a magnetic form, or any other form that cannot be perceived by the human senses, which are used in information processing by computers; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) certifying that the foreign embassy, etc. or ambassador, etc. has, with an exemption from consumption tax by the method prescribed in that paragraph, acquired or borrowed assets pertaining to that taxable transfer, etc. of assets, or received the provision of services pertaining to that taxable transfer, etc. of assets; provided, however, that this does not apply if that business operator proves that it was unable to preserve those documents or electronic or magnetic records due to a disaster or other unavoidable circumstances.

③The foreign embassy, etc. or ambassador, etc. referred to in paragraph (1) must not, for two years from the day on which it acquired or borrowed assets to which the provisions of that paragraph have been applied, use those assets for any purpose other than the performance of the duties prescribed in that paragraph (referred to as "use for other purposes" in this paragraph); provided, however, that this does not apply if there are unavoidable circumstances for putting those assets to use for other purposes within that period.

①Where a business operator transfers, to a navy exchange or post exchange prescribed in Article XV, paragraph 1 (a) of the Agreement under Article VI of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between Japan and the United States of America, Regarding Facilities and Areas and the Status of United States Armed Forces in Japan, goods specified by Cabinet Order that members of the United States armed forces, the civilian component, and their dependents prescribed in Article I of that Agreement (referred to as "members of the United States armed forces, etc." in the following paragraph) purchase from those organizations by the method specified by Cabinet Order for the purpose of exporting them, consumption tax is exempted for the transfer of those goods.

②The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply if the business operator that has made the transfer of the goods referred to in that paragraph does not preserve, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, documents certifying that those goods were purchased by members of the United States armed forces, etc. by the method prescribed in that paragraph; provided, however, that this does not apply if consumption tax has already been collected through the application of the provisions of the main clause of Article 8, paragraph (3) or the main clause of paragraph (5) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (6) of that Article) of that Article of the Consumption Tax Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the following paragraph, or if that business operator proves that it was unable to preserve those documents due to a disaster or other unavoidable circumstances.

③The provisions of Article 8, paragraph (3) of the Consumption Tax Act apply mutatis mutandis to a person that has purchased goods falling under the provisions of paragraph (1) from an organization prescribed in that paragraph by the method prescribed in that paragraph, and the provisions of paragraphs (4) through (6) of that Article and Article 27, paragraph (2) of that Act apply mutatis mutandis to a transfer or acquisition, prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (4) of that Act, of goods pertaining to that purchase.

④A transfer or acquisition to which the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (4) of the Consumption Tax Act are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph is deemed to be a transfer or acquisition of the goods referred to in that paragraph, and the provisions of Article 65, item (i) and Article 67 of that Act apply.

Consumption tax pertaining to the taking out is not imposed on liquor or manufactured tobacco taken out of a bonded area to which the provisions of Article 87-3, paragraph (1) or Article 88-2, paragraph (1) apply.

①For an individual business operator prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Consumption Tax Act (excluding a person exempted from the obligation to pay consumption tax pursuant to the main clause of Article 9, paragraph (1) of that Act), the due date for filing the return under the provisions of Article 45, paragraph (1) of that Act (excluding a return to be filed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article) for the taxable period that includes December 31 of the year (meaning a taxable period prescribed in Article 19 of that Act; the same applies in the following Article and Article 86-6) is to be, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of that Article, March 31 of the following year.

②The retention period of the books or invoices, etc. prescribed in Article 30, paragraph (7) of the Consumption Tax Act in the case where the provisions of the preceding paragraph apply, and other necessary matters concerning the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph, are specified by Cabinet Order.