A Resident who intends to change the method of valuation selected for Inventory (including the method of valuation prescribed in paragraph (1) of the following Article that a person who has not notified a method of valuation is required to use) must obtain the approval of the competent district director with jurisdiction over the place for tax payment.
居住者は、棚卸資産につき選定した評価の方法（その評価の方法を届け出なかつた者がよるべきこととされている次条第一項に規定する評価の方法を含む。）を変更しようとするときは、納税地の所轄税務署長の承認を受けなければならない。
A Resident who intends to obtain the approval referred to in the preceding paragraph must submit to the competent district director with jurisdiction over the place for tax payment, by March 15 of the year in which the Resident intends to adopt the new method of valuation, a written application stating that fact, the reason for the intended change, and other matters specified by Ministry of Finance Order.
前項の承認を受けようとする居住者は、その新たな評価の方法を採用しようとする年の三月十五日までに、その旨、変更しようとする理由その他財務省令で定める事項を記載した申請書を納税地の所轄税務署長に提出しなければならない。
Where the written application referred to in the preceding paragraph is submitted, the district director may reject the application if a considerable period has not elapsed since the Resident who submitted the written application adopted the method of valuation currently in use, or if the district director finds that calculation of the amount of business income of that Resident for each year would be difficult to carry out properly by the method of valuation to which the Resident intends to change.
税務署長は、前項の申請書の提出があつた場合において、その申請書を提出した居住者が現によつている評価の方法を採用してから相当期間を経過していないとき、又は変更しようとする評価の方法によつてはその者の各年分の事業所得の金額の計算が適正に行われ難いと認めるときは、その申請を却下することができる。
Where the written application referred to in paragraph (2) is submitted, and the district director makes a disposition of approval or rejection of the application, the district director is to notify the Resident who made the application to that effect in writing.
税務署長は、第二項の申請書の提出があつた場合において、その申請につき承認又は却下の処分をするときは、その申請をした居住者に対し、書面によりその旨を通知する。
Where the written application referred to in paragraph (2) has been submitted, if no disposition of approval or rejection has been made on the application by December 31 of that year, the approval is deemed to have been granted on that day.
第二項の申請書の提出があつた場合において、その年十二月三十一日までにその申請につき承認又は却下の処分がなかつたときは、同日においてその承認があつたものとみなす。
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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.