# 消費税法 / Consumption Tax Act — 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15)

- 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: 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15)（課税資産の譲渡等についての中間申告に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4031-73/art-15`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/consumption-tax-act/suppl-4031-73/art-15
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/suppl-4031-73/art-15
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### 第十五条（課税資産の譲渡等についての中間申告に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Interim Returns on Taxable Transfers, etc. of Assets
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4031-73/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumption-tax-act/suppl-4031-73/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/suppl-4031-73/art-15</sup>

**第一項**  新法第四十二条及び第四十三条の規定は、新法第四十二条第一項、第四項、第六項又は第八項に規定する課税期間が施行日以後に開始する場合について適用し、当該課税期間が施行日前に開始した場合については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4031-73/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumption-tax-act/suppl-4031-73/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/suppl-4031-73/art-15/par-1</sup>
The provisions of Articles 42 and 43 of the New Act apply to the case where the taxable period prescribed in Article 42, paragraph (1), (4), (6) or (8) of the New Act begins on or after the Effective Date, and the provisions then in force continue to govern the case where that taxable period began before the Effective Date.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4031-73/art-15/par-1: 新法第四十二条 → 消費税法 第四十二条 (Article 42), art-42 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumption-tax-act/art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/art-42
- suppl-4031-73/art-15/par-1: 第四十三条 → 消費税法 第四十三条 (Article 43), art-43 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumption-tax-act/art-43 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/art-43
- suppl-4031-73/art-15/par-1: 新法第四十二条第一項 → 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
- suppl-4031-73/art-15/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
- suppl-4031-73/art-15/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
- suppl-4031-73/art-15/par-1: 第八項 → 消費税法 第四十二条第八項 (Article 42, paragraph (8)), art-42/par-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumption-tax-act/art-42/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/art-42/par-8

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 消費税法 附則第十八条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumption-tax-act/suppl-4031-73/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/suppl-4031-73/art-18/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-20261013T073630-028, 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
