Article 40Secondary Tax Liability of Officers, etc. of Stock Companies That Have Evaded National Tax by Deceit or Other Wrongful Acts

In the case where a stock company, limited partnership company, or limited liability company that has evaded national tax, or received a refund of national tax, by deceit or other wrongful acts has not paid that national tax (including the accessory tax on it; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), when it is found that the amount to be collected is still insufficient even after the delinquent tax collection procedure has been executed on that stock company, limited partnership company, or limited liability company (in the case of a limited partnership company, only where it is found that the amount to be collected is still insufficient even after the delinquent tax collection procedure has been executed on the members with unlimited liability referred to in Article 33 (Secondary Tax Liability of Members of General Partnership Companies, etc.)), the officers of that stock company who engaged in that deceit or other wrongful acts, or the members with limited liability who execute the business of that limited partnership company or limited liability company (limited to the officers or members with limited liability in the case where, if those officers or members with limited liability were selected as the shareholders or members forming the basis for the determination, that stock company, limited partnership company, or limited liability company would fall under the company prescribed in Article 67, paragraph (2) of the Corporation Tax Act (Special Tax Rate for Specified Family Companies); hereinafter in this Article referred to as "specified officers, etc.") are to bear secondary tax liability for the national tax pertaining to that delinquency, up to the limit of the lower of the amount of the national tax evaded or refunded by that deceit or other wrongful acts and the value of the property of that stock company, limited partnership company, or limited liability company that, on or after the time of that deceit or other wrongful acts, was transferred to the specified officers, etc. or transferred by the specified officers, etc. (excluding property transferred as a transaction specified by Cabinet Order, such as a transaction that gives rise to the amount of cost of sales, selling expenses, or general and administrative expenses pertaining to the revenue of each business year of that stock company, limited partnership company, or limited liability company and that is found, in light of the content of the transactions of that stock company, limited partnership company, or limited liability company and other circumstances, to have been carried out with the counterparty to the transaction in accordance with ordinary transaction terms).