A person who falls under any of the following items is punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、一年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。
a person who has submitted to a district director a written request for reassessment prescribed in Article 23, paragraph (3) (Request for Reassessment) containing false statements;
a person who has failed to answer, or has given a false answer to, questions asked by the relevant officials under the provisions of Article 74-2, Article 74-3 (excluding paragraph (2)), or Articles 74-4 through 74-6 (Right of the Relevant Officials to Ask Questions and Conduct Inspections), or who has refused, obstructed, or evaded an inspection, the taking of samples, the prohibition of removal, or sealing carried out under those provisions;
第七十四条の二、第七十四条の三（第二項を除く。）若しくは第七十四条の四から第七十四条の六まで（当該職員の質問検査権）の規定による当該職員の質問に対して答弁せず、若しくは偽りの答弁をし、又はこれらの規定による検査、採取、移動の禁止若しくは封かんの実施を拒み、妨げ、若しくは忌避した者
a person who, without justifiable grounds, has failed to comply with a request for the presentation or submission of articles or for a report under the provisions of Articles 74-2 through 74-6 or Article 74-7-2 (Request for Reports from Specified Business Operators, etc.), or has presented or submitted books and documents, or other articles (including copies thereof) containing false statements or records, or has made a false report.
第七十四条の二から第七十四条の六まで又は第七十四条の七の二（特定事業者等への報告の求め）の規定による物件の提示若しくは提出又は報告の要求に対し、正当な理由がなくこれに応じず、又は偽りの記載若しくは記録をした帳簿書類その他の物件（その写しを含む。）を提示し、若しくは提出し、若しくは偽りの報告をした者
request for reassessmentmachine translation
「更正の請求」
A request to the tax office director (税務署長) to reassess (更正) the tax base or tax amount in a tax return, made under Article 23, paragraph (1) — within five years of the statutory tax return due date (ten years in one case for corporation tax) where the return overstated the tax or understated a loss or refund — or, on the grounds in paragraph (2), such as a court judgment or another person's reassessment showing the figures were wrong, within two months of that event, when a person whose tax was fixed by a determination (決定) may also make it.
Short name set inArticle 23, paragraph (2)
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.
district director
税務署長
The head of a tax office (税務署), the local office of the National Tax Agency that deals with taxpayers in its district (Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Finance, Article 24). It is the office a person usually deals with: an income tax return is filed with a district director (Income Tax Act, Article 120, paragraph (1)), and reassessments, determinations and the collection of national tax are done by the district director for the taxpayer's current place for tax payment (Act on General Rules for National Taxes, Articles 30 and 43). A person who objects to what a district director has decided can ask that director to look at it again (再調査の請求) or go straight to the National Tax Tribunal (Article 75, paragraph (1), item (i)) — unless the notice of the decision says officials of a Regional Taxation Bureau or of the National Tax Agency investigated, in which case it counts as the regional commissioner's decision, with the same choice, or as the Commissioner of the National Tax Agency's, which can only be challenged by a request for review to the Commissioner (Article 75, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Finance, Art. 24, Act on General Rules for National Taxes, Arts. 30, 43, 75 and Income Tax Act, Art. 120 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.