Article 16Special Provisions on the Time of Transfers, etc. of Assets Pertaining to Transfers on Deferred Payment Terms of Assets Giving Rise to Timber Income or Capital Gains of Individual Business Operators

①Where an individual business operator has made a transfer, etc. of assets that falls under a transfer on deferred payment terms of assets giving rise to timber income or capital gains prescribed in Article 132, paragraph (1) (Deferring Payment of Income Taxes on Assets Transferred on a Deferred-Payment Basis) of the Income Tax Act (hereinafter in this Article referred to as a "transfer on deferred payment terms"), if that individual business operator (including its heir; the same applies hereafter in this Article) has obtained the permission for deferred payment under that paragraph for all or part of the amount of income tax pertaining to that transfer on deferred payment terms, then, for the part of that transfer on deferred payment terms that pertains to installments of that transfer on deferred payment terms whose payment due dates do not arrive in the taxable period that includes the day on which that transfer on deferred payment terms was made (excluding installments received in that taxable period), the individual business operator may deem that it did not make a transfer, etc. of assets in that taxable period, and deduct the amount of consideration pertaining to that part from the amount of consideration pertaining to that transfer on deferred payment terms in that taxable period.

③An individual business operator that intends to be subject to the application of paragraph (1) is to make a note to that effect on the return under Article 45, paragraph (1) for the taxable period for which it intends to be subject to that application and for each taxable period for which it intends to be subject to the application of the main clause of the preceding paragraph (including a return filed after the due date prescribed in Article 18, paragraph (2) (Filing of a Return after the Due Date) of the Act on General Rules for National Taxes that pertains to that return; the same applies in Article 17, paragraph (4) and Article 18, paragraph (2)).

④In addition to what is provided for in the preceding paragraph, special provisions on the time of transfers, etc. of assets pertaining to a transfer on deferred payment terms in the case where an individual business operator to which paragraph (1) applies has died or has become subject to the application of the main clause of Article 9, paragraph (1), and other matters necessary for the application of paragraph (1) or (2), are specified by Cabinet Order.