A Resident paid a salary or other wage in Japan must submit a declaration stating the following particulars to the competent district director for the locality for paying over taxes under Article 17 (Locality for Paying Over Withholding Tax) (or, if a designation has been made under Article 18, paragraph (2) (Designation of Locality for Paying Over Taxes), the locality so designated; the same applies hereinafter in this Section) for the income taxes on that salary or other wage, via the person paying that salary or other wage (or, if there are two or more such persons, the principal payer of salary), by the day before the day on which the Resident is first paid a salary or other wage by that payer each year:
the name of that person paying the salary or other wage;
当該給与等の支払者の氏名又は名称
if the Resident is a Person with a Particular Disability or any other Person with a Disability, or a working student, a statement to that effect and the facts on which that is based, and if the Resident is a widow or a single parent, a statement to that effect;
if there is a cohabiting Person with a Particular Disability, any other Person with a Particular Disability, or a Person with a Disability other than a Person with a Particular Disability among the Resident's spouse in the same household or dependents, a statement to that effect, the number of such persons, their names and individual numbers (or, for a person without an individual number, the name), and the facts on which that is based;
the name and individual number of the spouse for withholding deduction (or, for a person without an individual number, the name);
the names and individual numbers of the relatives for withholding deduction (or, for a person without an individual number, the name), and, if there is a specified dependent or an elderly dependent among the relatives for withholding deduction, a statement to that effect and the facts on which that is based;
if the Resident is paid salaries or other wages by two or more persons paying a salary or other wage, the names of those of the spouse for withholding deduction or the relatives for withholding deduction whom the Resident intends to have used as the basis for calculating the amount of income taxes to be withheld pursuant to Article 183, paragraph (1) (Obligation to Withhold Taxes) from the salary or other wage paid by the principal payer of salary;
if the cohabiting Person with a Particular Disability, other Person with a Particular Disability, or Person with a Disability other than a Person with a Particular Disability referred to in item (iii), or the spouse for withholding deduction referred to in item (iv) (limited, in the case prescribed in the preceding item, to the spouse for withholding deduction prescribed in that item), is a relative who is a Nonresident, a statement to that effect, and if a relative for withholding deduction referred to in item (v) (limited, in the case prescribed in the preceding item, to a relative for withholding deduction prescribed in that item) is a relative who is a Nonresident, a statement to that effect and the facts by which that relative qualifies as a relative for withholding deduction;
any other particulars specified by Ministry of Finance Order.
その他財務省令で定める事項
If a declaration under the preceding paragraph is submitted via the person paying the salary or other wage referred to in that paragraph, and the particulars to be stated in that declaration have not changed from the particulars stated in the declaration under that paragraph submitted via that payer in the year preceding that year (or, if the Resident submitted a declaration under the following paragraph via that payer partway through that preceding year, the declaration under the following paragraph last submitted in that preceding year), the Resident may submit a declaration under that paragraph stating that there has been no change, in lieu of the particulars required to be stated under the preceding paragraph.
If a change arises partway through the year in the particulars stated in a declaration submitted by a Resident under paragraph (1), the Resident must submit a declaration stating the details of that change and other particulars specified by Ministry of Finance Order to the competent district director for the locality for paying over taxes under Article 17 for the income taxes on that salary or other wage, via the person paying the salary or other wage referred to in that paragraph, by the day before the day on which the Resident is first paid a salary or other wage by that payer after the day on which the change arose.
A Resident who has stated in a declaration under paragraph (1) or the preceding paragraph that the Resident is a working student (including a Resident who, pursuant to paragraph (2), has stated that there has been no change in lieu of that statement) and who is a person set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xxxii), (b) or (c) (Definitions) must, pursuant to Cabinet Order, submit or present a document certifying that the Resident is such a person.
A Resident who has stated the particulars set forth in paragraph (1), item (vii) in a declaration under paragraph (1) or (3) (including a Resident who, pursuant to paragraph (2), has stated that there has been no change in lieu of that statement) must, pursuant to Cabinet Order, submit or present a document certifying that the person about whom that statement has been made (including a person about whom a statement that there has been no change has been made in lieu of that statement pursuant to paragraph (2); referred to as a "relative residing outside Japan" in the paragraphs up to and including paragraph (7)) is a relative of the Resident (or, if the relative residing outside Japan is a relative for withholding deduction prescribed in that item and the fact by which that relative qualifies as a relative for withholding deduction set forth in that item is that the relative is a person set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xxxiv)-2, (b), (1), that document and a document certifying that the relative is a person set forth in (b), (1) of that item).
第一項又は第三項の規定による申告書に第一項第七号に掲げる事項の記載をした居住者(第二項の規定により当該記載に代えて異動がない旨の記載をした居住者を含む。)は、政令で定めるところにより、当該記載がされた者(第二項の規定により当該記載に代えて異動がない旨の記載がされた者を含む。以下第七項までにおいて「国外居住親族」という。)が当該居住者の親族に該当する旨を証する書類(当該国外居住親族が同号に規定する源泉控除対象親族であり、かつ、同号に掲げる源泉控除対象親族に該当する事実が第二条第一項第三十四号の二ロ(1)に掲げる者に該当することである場合には、当該書類及び同号ロ(1)に掲げる者に該当する旨を証する書類)を提出し、又は提示しなければならない。
If a Resident prescribed in the preceding paragraph seeks to receive a deduction of the amount equivalent to the disability deduction or the deduction for Dependents set forth in item (ii), (c) of Article 190 (Year-End Adjustment) for a relative residing outside Japan in calculating the amount of the excess or shortfall prescribed in that Article, the Resident must submit a declaration stating the fact that the living expenses of the relative residing outside Japan are paid from the same resources as the Resident (or, if the Resident seeks to receive a deduction of the amount equivalent to the deduction for Dependents on the grounds that the relative residing outside Japan is a person set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xxxiv)-2, (b), (3), the fact that the relative residing outside Japan is a person set forth in (b), (3) of that item) and other particulars specified by Ministry of Finance Order to the competent district director for the locality for paying over taxes under Article 17 for the income taxes on that salary or other wage, via the person paying the salary or other wage prescribed in paragraph (1), by the day before the day on which the Resident is paid the last salary or other wage for the year by that payer.
前項に規定する居住者は、第百九十条(年末調整)に規定する過不足の額の計算上、国外居住親族に係る同条第二号ハに掲げる障害者控除の額又は扶養控除の額に相当する金額の控除を受けようとする場合には、第一項に規定する給与等の支払者からその年最後に給与等の支払を受ける日の前日までに、当該国外居住親族が当該居住者と生計を一にする事実(当該国外居住親族が第二条第一項第三十四号の二ロ(3)に掲げる者に該当するものとして扶養控除の額に相当する金額の控除を受けようとする場合には、当該国外居住親族が同号ロ(3)に掲げる者に該当する事実)その他財務省令で定める事項を記載した申告書を、当該支払者を経由して、その給与等に係る所得税の第十七条の規定による納税地の所轄税務署長に提出しなければならない。
A Resident submitting a declaration under the preceding paragraph must, pursuant to Cabinet Order, submit or present a document showing that the living expenses of the relative residing outside Japan referred to in that paragraph are paid from the same resources as the Resident (or, if the Resident seeks to receive a deduction of the amount equivalent to the deduction for Dependents on the grounds that the relative residing outside Japan is a person set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xxxiv)-2, (b), (3), a document showing that the relative residing outside Japan is a person set forth in (b), (3) of that item).
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(Locality for Paying Over Withholding Tax)
The locality in which a person paying a salary or other wage as prescribed in Article 28, paragraph (1) (Salary Income), or a person making any other payment as prescribed in Part IV…
第二十八条第一項(給与所得)に規定する給与等の支払をする者その他第四編第一章から第六章まで(源泉徴収)に規定する支払をする者(以下この条において「給与等支払者」という。)のその支払につき源泉徴収をすべき所得税の納税地は、当該給与等支払者の事務所…
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Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding Article, if the locality for paying over taxes as under the preceding Article is found to be inappropriate as the locality for the person to pay over…
前条の規定による納税地が同条に規定する支払をする者の支払事務の形態その他の状況からみて同条の所得税の納税地として不適当であると認められる場合には、その納税地の所轄国税局長は、同条の規定にかかわらず、その所得税の納税地を指定することができる。
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A person paying, in Japan, a salary or other wage as prescribed in Article 28, paragraph (1) (Salary Income) (hereinafter referred to as a "salary or other wage" in this Chapter) to a Resident must…
居住者に対し国内において第二十八条第一項(給与所得)に規定する給与等(以下この章において「給与等」という。)の支払をする者は、その支払の際、その給与等について所得税を徴収し、その徴収の日の属する月の翌月十日までに、これを国に納付しなければならない。
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If a person paying a salary or other wage via whom a Resident has submitted a salary income earner's return for deduction for Dependents, etc. makes the last payment of salary or other wage for the…
給与所得者の扶養控除等申告書を提出した居住者で、第一号に規定するその年中に支払うべきことが確定した給与等の金額が二千万円以下であるものに対し、その提出の際に経由した給与等の支払者がその年最後に給与等の支払をする場合(その居住者がその後その年十二月三十一日までの間に当該支払者以外の者に当該申告書を提出すると見込まれる場…
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the amount of tax calculated by applying Article 89, paragraph (1) (Tax Rates) with the amount remaining after deducting the total of the following amounts from the amount of salary or other wage…
別表第五により、その年中にその居住者に対し支払うべきことが確定した給与等の金額に応じて求めた同表の給与所得控除後の給与等の金額から次に掲げる金額の合計額を控除した金額(当該金額に千円未満の端数があるとき、又は当該金額の全額が千円未満であるときは、その端数金額又はその全額を切り捨てた金額)を課税総所得金額とみなして第八…
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A Resident paid a salary or other wage in Japan must submit a declaration stating the following particulars to the competent district director for the locality for paying over taxes under Article 17…
国内において給与等の支払を受ける居住者は、その給与等の支払者(その支払者が二以上ある場合には、主たる給与等の支払者)から毎年最初に給与等の支払を受ける日の前日までに、次に掲げる事項を記載した申告書を、当該給与等の支払者を経由して…
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if there is a cohabiting Person with a Particular Disability, any other Person with a Particular Disability, or a Person with a Disability other than a Person with a Particular Disability among the…
同一生計配偶者又は扶養親族のうちに同居特別障害者若しくはその他の特別障害者又は特別障害者以外の障害者がある場合には、その旨、その数、その者の氏名及び個人番号(個人番号を有しない者にあつては、氏名)並びにその該当する事実
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the name and individual number of the spouse for withholding deduction (or, for a person without an individual number, the name);
源泉控除対象配偶者の氏名及び個人番号(個人番号を有しない者にあつては、氏名)
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the names and individual numbers of the relatives for withholding deduction (or, for a person without an individual number, the name), and, if there is a specified dependent or an elderly dependent…
源泉控除対象親族の氏名及び個人番号(個人番号を有しない者にあつては、氏名)並びに源泉控除対象親族のうちに特定扶養親族又は老人扶養親族がある場合には、その旨及びその該当する事実
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if the Resident is paid salaries or other wages by two or more persons paying a salary or other wage, the names of those of the spouse for withholding deduction or the relatives for withholding…
二以上の給与等の支払者から給与等の支払を受ける場合には、源泉控除対象配偶者又は源泉控除対象親族のうち、主たる給与等の支払者から支払を受ける給与等について第百八十三条第一項(源泉徴収義務)の規定により徴収される所得税の額の計算の基礎としようとするものの氏名
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if the cohabiting Person with a Particular Disability, other Person with a Particular Disability, or Person with a Disability other than a Person with a Particular Disability referred to in item…
第三号の同居特別障害者若しくはその他の特別障害者若しくは特別障害者以外の障害者又は第四号の源泉控除対象配偶者(前号に規定する場合に該当するときは、同号に規定する源泉控除対象配偶者に限る。)が非居住者である親族である場合にはその旨並びに第五号の源泉控除対象親族(前号に規定する場合に該当するときは、同号に規定する源泉控除…
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If a declaration under the preceding paragraph is submitted via the person paying the salary or other wage referred to in that paragraph, and the particulars to be stated in that declaration have not…
前項の規定による申告書を同項の給与等の支払者を経由して提出する場合において、当該申告書に記載すべき事項がその年の前年において当該支払者を経由して提出した同項の規定による申告書(その者が当該前年の中途において次項の規定による申告書を当該支払者を経由して提出した場合には、当該前年の最後に提出した同項の規定による申告書)に…
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If a change arises partway through the year in the particulars stated in a declaration submitted by a Resident under paragraph (1), the Resident must submit a declaration stating the details of that…
第一項の規定による申告書を提出した居住者は、その年の中途において当該申告書に記載した事項について異動を生じた場合には、同項の給与等の支払者からその異動を生じた日後最初に給与等の支払を受ける日の前日までに、その異動の内容その他財務省令で定める事項を記載した申告書を、当該支払者を経由して…
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A Resident who has stated the particulars set forth in paragraph (1), item (vii) in a declaration under paragraph (1) or (3)…
第一項又は第三項の規定による申告書に第一項第七号に掲げる事項の記載をした居住者(第二項の規定により当該記載に代えて異動がない旨の記載をした居住者を含む。)は、政令で定めるところにより…
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If a Resident prescribed in the preceding paragraph seeks to receive a deduction of the amount equivalent to the disability deduction or the deduction for Dependents set forth in item (ii)…
前項に規定する居住者は、第百九十条(年末調整)に規定する過不足の額の計算上、国外居住親族に係る同条第二号ハに掲げる障害者控除の額又は扶養控除の額に相当する金額の控除を受けようとする場合には、第一項に規定する給与等の支払者からその年最後に給与等の支払を受ける日の前日までに…
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A Resident submitting a declaration under the preceding paragraph must, pursuant to Cabinet Order, submit or present a document showing that the living expenses of the relative residing outside Japan…
前項の規定による申告書を提出する居住者は、政令で定めるところにより、同項の国外居住親族が当該居住者と生計を一にすることを明らかにする書類(当該国外居住親族が第二条第一項第三十四号の二ロ(3)に掲げる者に該当するものとして扶養控除の額に相当する金額の控除を受けようとする場合には、当該国外居住親族が同号ロ(3)に掲げる者…
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Working student: a person as follows earning business income, salary income, retirement income, or miscellaneous income from the person's own work…
勤労学生 次に掲げる者で、自己の勤労に基づいて得た事業所得、給与所得、退職所得又は雑所得(以下この号において「給与所得等」という。)を有するもののうち、合計所得金額が八十五万円以下であり、かつ、合計所得金額のうち給与所得等以外の所得に係る部分の金額が十万円以下であるものをいう。
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Claimable dependent: a dependent who is the person specified below for the category of person set forth below to which the dependent belongs:
控除対象扶養親族 扶養親族のうち、次に掲げる者の区分に応じそれぞれ次に定める者をいう。
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「国内」
The area in which this Act is in force, that is, Japan.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies throughout the law
Resident
「居住者」
An individual who has a domicile in Japan, or who has had a residence in Japan continuously for one year or more up to now.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (iii)· applies throughout the law
Nonresident
「非居住者」
An individual who is not a resident.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (v)· applies throughout the law
Person with a Disability
「障害者」
A person who is usually unable to understand the consequences of their actions because of a mental disability, a blind person, or another person with a mental or physical disability of a kind a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xxviii)· applies throughout the law
Person with a Particular Disability
「特別障害者」
A person with a disability whose mental or physical disability is severe, as a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xxix)· applies throughout the law
widowmachine translation
「寡婦」
A person who is not a single parent (ひとり親) and who either has not remarried after divorcing her husband, supports a dependant, has total income of 5 million yen or less and has no partner in a relationship equivalent to marriage, or has not remarried after her husband's death (or whose husband is missing, as a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies) and meets the same income and partner conditions.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xxx)· applies throughout the law
single parentmachine translation
「ひとり親」
A person who is not currently married, or whose spouse is missing and not known to be alive (as a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies), who has a child of the kind the Cabinet Order sets sharing the same household budget, has total income of 5 million yen or less, and has no partner in a relationship equivalent to marriage.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xxxi)· applies throughout the law
working studentmachine translation
「勤労学生」
A student at a school, a specialised training college or similar institution, or a trainee in accredited vocational training, who earns income from their own work and whose total income is 850,000 yen or less, of which no more than 100,000 yen comes from anything other than work.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xxxii)· applies throughout the law
spouse in the same householdmachine translation
「同一生計配偶者」
A resident's spouse who shares the resident's household budget and has total income of 580,000 yen or less, other than a spouse working full-time in the resident's business and paid for it or counted as a family business employee.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xxxiii)· applies throughout the law
spouse for withholding deductionmachine translation
「源泉控除対象配偶者」
The spouse of a resident whose total income is 9 million yen or less, who shares the resident's household budget, is not paid as a full-time worker in the resident's business, and has total income of 950,000 yen or less.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xxxiii-4)· applies throughout the law
dependentmachine translation
「扶養親族」
A relative of a resident other than their spouse, or a child placed with the resident as a foster parent under the Child Welfare Act or an elderly person placed in their care under the Act on Social Welfare for the Elderly, who shares the resident's household budget and has total income of 580,000 yen or less, other than one working full-time in the resident's business.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xxxiv)· applies throughout the law
specified dependentmachine translation
「特定扶養親族」
A claimable dependent who is aged 19 to 22.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xxxiv-3)· applies throughout the law
elderly dependentmachine translation
「老人扶養親族」
A claimable dependent who is aged 70 or over.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xxxiv-4)· applies throughout the law
relative for withholding deductionmachine translation
「源泉控除対象親族」
A claimable dependent, or a relative (other than a spouse) or foster child sharing the resident's household budget who is aged 19 to 22 and has total income of 1 million yen or less, whom the payer of salary or pension takes into account when withholding tax.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xxxiv-5)· applies throughout the law
withholding
「源泉徴収」
Collecting income tax at source when making a payment and paying it over to the government, under Part IV, Chapters I to VI of this Act.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xlv)· applies throughout the law
individual numbermachine translation
「個人番号」
The individual number (the personal 'My Number') as defined in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures (Act No. 27 of 2013).
Defined inArticle 10, paragraph (3), item (i)
cohabiting Person with a Particular Disabilitymachine translation
「同居特別障害者」
A Person with a Particular Disability (特別障害者) who is a resident's spouse in the same household (同一生計配偶者) or dependent (扶養親族) and who usually lives with the resident, the resident's spouse or another relative sharing the resident's household budget, as Article 79, paragraph (3) describes.
Short name set inArticle 85, paragraph (2)· applies only in this provision and in Article 187; Article 194, paragraph (1), item (iii); Article 203-6, paragraph (1), item (v); Article 190, paragraph (1), item (ii), (c); and Article 203-3, paragraph (1), item (i), (g)
salary or other wage
「給与等」
Salaries, wages, allowances paid to Diet members, bonuses and other payments of the same nature, as described in Article 28, paragraph (1) on salary income; some provisions leave out salary from which no tax need be withheld.
Short name set inArticle 183, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter
relative residing outside Japanmachine translation
「国外居住親族」
A person whom a resident has stated, in a salary income earner's return for deduction for Dependents, etc. (給与所得者の扶養控除等申告書) under Article 194, to be a relative who is a Nonresident (非居住者) — a spouse for withholding deduction (源泉控除対象配偶者), a relative for withholding deduction (源泉控除対象親族), or a spouse in the same household or dependent with a disability — including one for whom the resident has instead stated that nothing has changed.
Short name set inArticle 194, paragraph (5)· applies only in this provision and in Article 194, paragraphs (6) and (7)
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.