If a person who is or was engaged in affairs concerning an investigation related to national tax (including an investigation for the examination of a case pertaining to an appeal and an investigation of a criminal case as prescribed in Article 131, paragraph (1) (Questioning, Inspection, Retention, etc.)) or an investigation for the provision of information conducted pursuant to the provisions of the Act on Exemption, etc. of Income Tax, etc. on Income of Foreign Residents, etc. Based on the Principle of Reciprocity (Act No. 144 of 1962) or the Act on Special Provisions of the Income Tax Act, the Corporation Tax Act and the Local Tax Act Incidental to Enforcement of Tax Treaties, etc., or in affairs concerning the collection of national tax or the collection of taxes of a treaty partner conducted pursuant to the provisions of that Act, divulges or misappropriates a secret that the person was able to learn in connection with those affairs, the person is subject to imprisonment for not more than two years or a fine of not more than 1,000,000 yen.
国税に関する調査（不服申立てに係る事件の審理のための調査及び第百三十一条第一項（質問、検査又は領置等）に規定する犯則事件の調査を含む。）若しくは外国居住者等の所得に対する相互主義による所得税等の非課税等に関する法律（昭和三十七年法律第百四十四号）若しくは租税条約等の実施に伴う所得税法、法人税法及び地方税法の特例等に関する法律の規定に基づいて行う情報の提供のための調査に関する事務又は国税の徴収若しくは同法の規定に基づいて行う相手国等の租税の徴収に関する事務に従事している者又は従事していた者が、これらの事務に関して知ることのできた秘密を漏らし、又は盗用したときは、二年以下の拘禁刑又は百万円以下の罰金に処する。
national taxmachine translation
「国税」
A tax imposed by the national government, other than customs duty, tonnage tax, special tonnage tax, the forest environment tax and the special corporate business tax.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies throughout the law
treaty partnermachine translation
「相手国等」
The other country or party to a tax treaty, etc. (租税条約等) — a tax treaty or another international agreement of Japan's on exchanging tax information or on help with collecting tax or serving documents — as defined in Article 2, item (iii) of the Act on Special Provisions of the Income Tax Act, the Corporation Tax Act and the Local Tax Act Incidental to Enforcement of Tax Treaties, etc.
Defined inArticle 46, paragraph (6)
appealmachine translation
「不服申立て」
An appeal against a disposition made under the national tax laws, by a request for reinvestigation (再調査の請求) or a request for review (審査請求) under Article 75; the term does not carry this meaning in Article 80, paragraph (3), which sends appeals on liquor licensing to the Administrative Complaint Review Act instead.
Short name set inArticle 76, paragraph (1), item (i)
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.