# 消費税法 / Consumption Tax Act — 第四十二条の二 (Article 42-2)

- Law: 消費税法 (Consumption Tax Act), 昭和六十三年法律第百八号
- English title "Consumption Tax Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title
- Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 第四十二条の二 (Article 42-2)（災害等による期限の延長により中間申告書の提出を要しない場合） — address `art-42-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/consumption-tax-act/art-42-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/art-42-2
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### 第四十二条の二（災害等による期限の延長により中間申告書の提出を要しない場合） — Cases Where Submission of an Interim Return Is Not Required Due to Extension of Time Limits Owing to Disasters, etc.
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-42-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumption-tax-act/art-42-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/art-42-2</sup>

**第一項**  国税通則法第十一条（災害等による期限の延長）の規定による申告に関する期限の延長により、中間申告書（前条第一項、第四項又は第六項の規定による申告書をいう。以下この章において同じ。）の提出期限と当該中間申告書に係る課税期間の第四十五条第一項の規定による申告書の提出期限とが同一の日となる場合は、前条第一項本文、第四項本文又は第六項本文の規定にかかわらず、当該中間申告書を提出することを要しない。
<sup>art-42-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumption-tax-act/art-42-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/art-42-2/par-1</sup>
Where, owing to an extension of the time limit relating to filing under the provisions of Article 11 (Extension of Time Limits due to Disasters and Similar Causes) of the Act on General Rules for National Taxes, the deadline for filing an interim return (meaning a return under the provisions of paragraph (1), (4) or (6) of the preceding Article; the same applies hereinafter in this Chapter) and the deadline for filing the return under the provisions of Article 45, paragraph (1) for the taxable period relating to that interim return fall on the same day, it is not required to submit that interim return, notwithstanding the main clause of paragraph (1), the main clause of paragraph (4) or the main clause of paragraph (6) of the preceding Article.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-42-2/par-1: 国税通則法第十一条 → 国税通則法 第十一条 (Article 11), art-11 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-tax-general-rules-act/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/337AC0000000066/art-11
- art-42-2/par-1: 前条第一項 → 消費税法 第四十二条第一項 (Article 42, paragraph (1)), art-42/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumption-tax-act/art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/art-42/par-1
- art-42-2/par-1: 第四項 → 消費税法 第四十二条第四項 (Article 42, paragraph (4)), art-42/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumption-tax-act/art-42/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/art-42/par-4
- art-42-2/par-1: 第六項 → 消費税法 第四十二条第六項 (Article 42, paragraph (6)), art-42/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumption-tax-act/art-42/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/art-42/par-6
- art-42-2/par-1: 第四十五条第一項 → 消費税法 第四十五条第一項 (Article 45, paragraph (1)), art-45/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumption-tax-act/art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/art-45/par-1

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 消費税法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/363AC0000000108/20261001_507AC0000000070), retrieved 2026-10-13
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 消費税法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/1176), retrieved 2026-09-18
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch consumption-tax-act-20261013T073630-015, translated 2026-10-13
- This site's parser, version 190 — 消費税法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13
