Article 344Confirmation, etc. by the Payer of the Consideration for the Transfer of Shares, etc.
第三百四十四条（株式等の譲渡の対価の支払者の確認等）
Where notice has been given pursuant to the provisions of Article 342 (Notice by a Person Receiving the Consideration for the Transfer of Shares, etc.), the payer of the consideration for the transfer of shares, etc. must, except where the payer has made the confirmation under the provisions of paragraph (4) of the preceding Article, confirm whether the name or title, domicile and individual number or corporate number notified (for a person who has neither an individual number nor a corporate number, a person who has already notified the individual number or an individual who has given the notice under the provisions of Article 342, paragraph (3) (limited to an individual who presented a document confirming a change of address, etc. pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article at the time of that notice), the name or title and domicile; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) are the same as the name or title, domicile and individual number or corporate number stated or recorded in the documents prescribed in Article 337, paragraph (2) (Presentation of a Copy of Certificate of Residence and Other Documents in Connection with Notice) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, the document confirming a change of address, etc. or the electronic certificate for signature or similar record, that were presented or transmitted to the payer at the time of that notice. In this case, where the person who has given that notice is a person stated in the books prescribed in paragraph (5) of the preceding Article, the payer must confirm respectively whether the name or title, domicile and individual number or corporate number notified are the same as the name or title, domicile and individual number or corporate number stated in those books.
株式等の譲渡の対価の支払者は、第三百四十二条（株式等の譲渡の対価の受領者の告知）の規定による告知があつた場合には、前条第四項の規定による確認をした場合を除き、当該告知があつた氏名又は名称、住所及び個人番号又は法人番号（個人番号及び法人番号を有しない者、番号既告知者又は第三百四十二条第三項の規定による告知をした個人（当該告知の際に前条第三項の規定により住所等変更確認書類を提示した個人に限る。）にあつては、氏名又は名称及び住所。以下この項において同じ。）が、当該告知の際に提示又は送信を受けた前条第二項において準用する第三百三十七条第二項（告知に係る住民票の写しその他の書類の提示等）に規定する書類若しくは住所等変更確認書類又は署名用電子証明書等に記載又は記録がされた氏名又は名称、住所及び個人番号又は法人番号と同じであるかどうかを確認しなければならない。この場合において、当該告知をした者が前条第五項に規定する帳簿に記載されている者であるときは、当該告知があつた氏名又は名称、住所及び個人番号又は法人番号が当該帳簿に記載されている氏名又は名称、住所及び個人番号又は法人番号と同じであるかどうかをそれぞれ確認しなければならない。
The payer of the consideration for the transfer of shares, etc. must, where the payer has made the confirmation under the provisions of the preceding paragraph or paragraph (4) of the preceding Article, as provided by Ministry of Finance Order, make clear in the books relating to the confirmation under those provisions (including books or documents similar thereto) that the confirmation under those provisions has been made, and preserve those books.
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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 41, paragraph (1), item (i)
corporate numbermachine translation
「法人番号」
A corporate number as defined in Article 2, paragraph (16) of the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures.
Defined inArticle 50, paragraph (1)
electronic certificate for signature or similar recordmachine translation
「署名用電子証明書等」
The electronic certificate for signature defined in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Act on Certification Business of the Japan Agency for Local Authority Information Systems in Relation to Electronic Signatures, etc. (the one issued for an individual number card), or another electronic record a Ministry of Finance Order (財務省令) specifies, which can be sent instead of showing an identity document.
Short name set inArticle 336, paragraph (4)· applies only in this part
shares, etc.machine translation
「株式等」
In Articles 342 to 344, shares and other such securities as defined in Article 224-3, paragraph (2) of the Income Tax Act: shares, equity interests in corporations, preferred equity, beneficial interests in investment trusts and specified trusts that issue beneficiary certificates, bond-like beneficial interests and public and corporate bonds, including those of foreign corporations.
Short name set inArticle 342, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Articles 342 to 344
person who has already notified the individual numbermachine translation
「番号既告知者」
A recipient of the consideration for a transfer of shares, etc. whose name, address and individual or corporate number the payer already keeps in a ledger, made as an Order of the Ministry of Finance (財務省令) sets after checking an identity document, an electronic signature certificate or a specified notice (paragraph (4)), and who therefore gives only name and address.
Short name set inArticle 342, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 344, paragraph (1)
consideration for the transfermachine translation
「譲渡の対価」
The consideration for a transfer of shares or similar securities (株式等) as Article 224-3, paragraph (1) of the Income Tax Act describes it.
Defined inArticle 342, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Articles 342 to 344
payermachine translation
「支払者」
In Article 343, paragraphs (4) and (5) and Article 344, the payer, as referred to in Article 224-3, paragraph (1) of the Income Tax Act, of the price for shares or other such securities (株式等) someone sells, such as the buyer or the securities firm handling the sale, to whom the seller must give their name, address and individual or corporate number.
Short name set inArticle 343, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 343, paragraphs (4) and (5); and Article 344
document confirming a change of address, etc.machine translation
「住所等変更確認書類」
A copy of an individual's resident record (住民票) or another document a Ministry of Finance Order (財務省令) sets that shows their name or address before and after a change, which they may show instead of the usual identity documents when giving notice of the change.
Defined inArticle 343, paragraph (3)· applies only in this provision and in Article 344, paragraph (1)