With respect to a business operator whose taxable sales in the base period for its taxable period are 10 million yen or less (excluding a qualified invoice issuer), notwithstanding Article 5, paragraph (1), the obligation to pay consumption tax is exempted for the taxable transfers, etc. of assets and specified taxable purchases conducted in Japan during that taxable period; provided, however, that this does not apply where otherwise provided for in this Act.
The taxable sales in the base period prescribed in the preceding paragraph means the amount specified in the following items for the category of business operators set forth in those items:
an individual business operator and a corporation whose base period is one year: the balance remaining after deducting from the total amount of consideration for taxable transfers, etc. of assets conducted in Japan during the base period (meaning the amount of consideration prescribed in Article 28, paragraph (1); the same applies hereafter in this paragraph, paragraph (2) of the following Article, Article 11, paragraph (4) and Article 12-3, paragraph (1)) the total of the amounts obtained by deducting the amount set forth in (b) from the amount set forth in (a) (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph and Article 11, paragraph (4) as the "total tax-exclusive refunds, etc. of consideration for sales");
the amount of the refund, etc. of consideration for sales prescribed in Article 38, paragraph (1) that was made during the base period;
基準期間中に行つた第三十八条第一項に規定する売上げに係る対価の返還等の金額
the amount calculated by multiplying the amount of consumption tax pertaining to the amount of the refund, etc. of consideration for sales prescribed in Article 38, paragraph (1) that was made during the base period by 100/78;
基準期間中に行つた第三十八条第一項に規定する売上げに係る対価の返還等の金額に係る消費税額に七十八分の百を乗じて算出した金額
a corporation whose base period is not one year: the amount calculated by dividing the balance remaining after deducting the total tax-exclusive refunds, etc. of consideration for sales in that base period from the total amount of consideration for taxable transfers, etc. of assets conducted in Japan during the base period by the total number of months of the business years included in that base period of that corporation, and multiplying the result by 12.
The number of months in item (ii) of the preceding paragraph is to be calculated according to the calendar, and if a fraction of less than one month arises, it is to be counted as one month.
前項第二号の月数は、暦に従つて計算し、一月に満たない端数を生じたときは、これを一月とする。
Where a business operator that would be exempted from the obligation to pay consumption tax under the main clause of paragraph (1) submits to the district director having jurisdiction over its place for tax payment, for a taxable period in which its taxable sales in the base period (meaning the taxable sales in the base period prescribed in that paragraph; the same applies hereafter in this Chapter, except in Article 11, paragraph (4) and Article 12, paragraph (3)) are 10 million yen or less, a written notification stating that it will not be subject to the application of the main clause of paragraph (1), the main clause of that paragraph does not apply to taxable transfers, etc. of assets and specified taxable purchases conducted in Japan by the business operator that made that submission during each taxable period from the taxable period following the taxable period that includes the day of that submission (or, where the taxable period that includes the day of that submission is the taxable period that includes the day on which the business was commenced or any other taxable period specified by Cabinet Order, from that taxable period) onward (excluding a taxable period in which its taxable sales in the base period exceed 10 million yen).
第一項本文の規定により消費税を納める義務が免除されることとなる事業者が、その基準期間における課税売上高（同項に規定する基準期間における課税売上高をいう。第十一条第四項及び第十二条第三項を除き、以下この章において同じ。）が千万円以下である課税期間につき、第一項本文の規定の適用を受けない旨を記載した届出書をその納税地を所轄する税務署長に提出した場合には、当該提出をした事業者が当該提出をした日の属する課税期間の翌課税期間（当該提出をした日の属する課税期間が事業を開始した日の属する課税期間その他の政令で定める課税期間である場合には、当該課税期間）以後の課税期間（その基準期間における課税売上高が千万円を超える課税期間を除く。）中に国内において行う課税資産の譲渡等及び特定課税仕入れについては、同項本文の規定は、適用しない。
A business operator that has submitted a written notification under the provisions of the preceding paragraph must, when it intends to cease to be subject to the application of that paragraph or when it has discontinued its business, submit to the district director having jurisdiction over its place for tax payment a written notification to that effect.
In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, a business operator that has submitted a written notification under the provisions of paragraph (4) may, except where it has discontinued its business, submit a written notification stating that it intends to cease to be subject to the application of that paragraph only on or after the first day of the taxable period that includes the day on which two years have elapsed from the first day of the following taxable period prescribed in that paragraph.
In the case referred to in paragraph (5), where a business operator that has submitted a written notification under the provisions of paragraph (4) has, during any taxable period beginning during the period from the first day of the following taxable period prescribed in that paragraph to the day on which two years have elapsed from that day (excluding a taxable period to which Article 37, paragraph (1) applies), made a taxable purchase of an adjustment-target fixed asset in Japan or taken out of a bonded area taxable goods that fall under adjustment-target fixed assets (excluding those for which consumption tax is exempted under the provisions of another Act or a treaty; the same applies in paragraph (9), Article 12-2, paragraph (4) and Article 12-4) (hereinafter in this paragraph, Article 12-2, paragraph (2) and Article 12-3, paragraph (3) referred to as a "purchase, etc. of an adjustment-target fixed asset") (including where it made that purchase, etc. of an adjustment-target fixed asset before the submission of that written notification in the taxable period specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in paragraph (4)), then, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, except where it has discontinued its business, it may submit a written notification stating that it intends to cease to be subject to the application of the provisions of paragraph (4) only on or after the first day of the taxable period that includes the day on which three years have elapsed from the first day of the taxable period that includes the day of that purchase, etc. of an adjustment-target fixed asset (meaning the day specified in each item of Article 30, paragraph (1) for the category of cases set forth in that item pertaining to that purchase, etc. of an adjustment-target fixed asset; the same applies hereafter in this paragraph and Article 12-2, paragraph (2)). In this case, if, during the period from the first day of the taxable period that includes the day of that purchase, etc. of an adjustment-target fixed asset to the day of that purchase, etc. of an adjustment-target fixed asset, it has submitted to the district director having jurisdiction over its place for tax payment a written notification stating that it intends to cease to be subject to the application of the provisions of paragraph (4), then, for the purpose of the application of the provisions of the following paragraph, the submission of that written notification is deemed not to have been made.
第五項の場合において、第四項の規定による届出書を提出した事業者は、同項に規定する翌課税期間の初日から同日以後二年を経過する日までの間に開始した各課税期間（第三十七条第一項の規定の適用を受ける課税期間を除く。）中に国内における調整対象固定資産の課税仕入れ又は調整対象固定資産に該当する課税貨物（他の法律又は条約の規定により消費税が免除されるものを除く。第九項、第十二条の二第四項及び第十二条の四において同じ。）の保税地域からの引取り（以下この項、第十二条の二第二項及び第十二条の三第三項において「調整対象固定資産の仕入れ等」という。）を行つた場合（第四項に規定する政令で定める課税期間において当該届出書の提出前に当該調整対象固定資産の仕入れ等を行つた場合を含む。）には、前項の規定にかかわらず、事業を廃止した場合を除き、当該調整対象固定資産の仕入れ等の日（当該調整対象固定資産の仕入れ等に係る第三十条第一項各号に掲げる場合の区分に応じ当該各号に定める日をいう。以下この項及び第十二条の二第二項において同じ。）の属する課税期間の初日から三年を経過する日の属する課税期間の初日以後でなければ、第四項の規定の適用を受けることをやめようとする旨を記載した届出書を提出することができない。この場合において、当該調整対象固定資産の仕入れ等の日の属する課税期間の初日から当該調整対象固定資産の仕入れ等の日までの間に同項の規定の適用を受けることをやめようとする旨を記載した届出書をその納税地を所轄する税務署長に提出しているときは、次項の規定の適用については、その届出書の提出は、なかつたものとみなす。
When a written notification under the provisions of paragraph (5) has been submitted, the notification under the provisions of paragraph (4) ceases to be effective on or after the day following the last day of the taxable period that includes the day of that submission.
Special provisions on the application of paragraph (4) or the preceding paragraph in the case where, due to unavoidable circumstances, the written notification under the provisions of paragraph (4) or (5) could not be submitted by the day before the first day of the taxable period for which the business operator intends to become subject to, or to cease to be subject to, the application of the provisions of paragraph (4), and other matters necessary for the application of paragraph (7) in the case where the purchase, etc. of an adjustment-target fixed asset prescribed in that paragraph is the taking out of a bonded area of taxable goods pertaining to the submission of a special return, or in other cases, are specified by Cabinet Order.