# 所得税法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the Income Tax Act — 第百九十六条 (Article 196) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/income-tax-act-enforcement-order/art-196. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 所得税法施行令 (Order for Enforcement of the Income Tax Act), 昭和四十年政令第九十六号 - English title "Order for Enforcement of the Income Tax Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: CabinetOrder — 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: 第百九十六条 (Article 196)（小規模事業者の収入及び費用の帰属時期） — address `art-196` - Text in force since: 2026-05-22 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/income-tax-act-enforcement-order/art-196 - e-Gov law ID: 340CO0000000096 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百九十六条（小規模事業者の収入及び費用の帰属時期） — Periods to Which Revenue and Expenses of Small Enterprises Are Attributed caption: machine translation, not official art-196 · https://japanlaw.org/en/income-tax-act-enforcement-order/art-196 **第一項** 法第六十七条第一項（小規模事業者等の収入及び費用の帰属時期）に規定する居住者で前条各号に掲げる要件に該当するもののその年分（不動産所得を生ずべき業務及び事業所得を生ずべき業務の全部を譲渡し、若しくは廃止し、又は死亡した日の属する年分を除く。）の不動産所得の金額及び事業所得の金額（山林の伐採又は譲渡に係るものを除く。）の計算上総収入金額に算入すべき金額は、法第二編第二章第二節第三款（収入金額の計算）（法第四十一条（農産物の収穫の場合の総収入金額算入）を除く。）の規定の適用を受けるものを除き、その者の選択により、これらの業務につきその年において収入した金額（金銭以外の物又は権利その他経済的な利益をもつて収入した場合には、その金銭以外の物又は権利その他経済的な利益の価額）とすることができる。 art-196/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/income-tax-act-enforcement-order/art-196/par-1 The amount to be included in gross revenue in calculating the amount of real property income and the amount of business income (excluding those pertaining to the felling of trees in forested land or the transfer of forested land) for that year (excluding the year that includes the date on which the person transferred or discontinued all of the operations that give rise to real property income and the operations that give rise to business income, or died) of a Resident prescribed in Article 67, paragraph (1) (Periods to Which Revenue and Expenses of Small Enterprises and Similar Businesses Are Attributed) of the Act who falls under the requirements set out in the items of the preceding Article may, at the option of that person, except for that to which the provisions of Part II, Chapter II, Section 2, Subsection 3 (Calculation of Revenue) of the Act (excluding Article 41 (Inclusion of Crop Harvests in Gross Revenue)) apply, be the amount received in that year in respect of those operations (where received in the form of property other than money, rights or other economic benefits, the value of that property other than money, rights or other economic benefits). machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定の適用を受ける居住者のその年分の同項に規定する不動産所得の金額及び事業所得の金額の計算上必要経費に算入すべき金額は、償却費並びに法第五十一条第一項及び第四項（資産損失の必要経費算入）の規定の適用を受けるものを除き、その年においてこれらの所得の総収入金額を得るために直接支出した費用の額及びその年においてこれらの所得を生ずべき業務について支出した費用の額とする。 art-196/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/income-tax-act-enforcement-order/art-196/par-2 The amount to be included in necessary expenses in calculating the amount of real property income and the amount of business income prescribed in paragraph (1) for that year of a Resident to whom the provisions of that paragraph apply is, except for depreciation allowances and those to which Article 51, paragraphs (1) and (4) (Inclusion of Losses on Assets in Necessary Expenses) of the Act apply, the amount of expenses directly expended in that year to obtain the gross revenue of those incomes and the amount of expenses expended in that year for the operations that give rise to those incomes. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前二項に定めるもののほか、第一項の規定の適用を受ける居住者がその適用を受けないこととなる場合における不動産所得又は事業所得に係る総収入金額及び必要経費の特例その他前二項の規定の適用に関し必要な事項は、財務省令で定める。 art-196/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/income-tax-act-enforcement-order/art-196/par-3 In addition to what is provided in the preceding two paragraphs, special provisions on gross revenue and necessary expenses pertaining to real property income or business income where a Resident to whom the provisions of paragraph (1) apply comes to cease to have them applied, and other matters necessary for the application of the preceding two paragraphs, are specified by Ministry of Finance Order. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-196/par-1: 法第六十七条第一項 → 所得税法 第六十七条第一項 (Article 67, paragraph (1)), art-67/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/income-tax-act/art-67/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 340AC0000000033) - art-196/par-1: 前条 → 所得税法施行令 第百九十五条 (Article 195), art-195 — https://japanlaw.org/en/income-tax-act-enforcement-order/art-195 - art-196/par-1: 法第四十一条 → 所得税法 第四十一条 (Article 41), art-41 — https://japanlaw.org/en/income-tax-act/art-41 (e-Gov law ID 340AC0000000033) - art-196/par-2: 前項 → 所得税法施行令 第百九十六条第一項 (Article 196, paragraph (1)), art-196/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/income-tax-act-enforcement-order/art-196/par-1 - art-196/par-2: 法第五十一条第一項 → 所得税法 第五十一条第一項 (Article 51, paragraph (1)), art-51/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/income-tax-act/art-51/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 340AC0000000033) - art-196/par-2: 第四項 → 所得税法 第五十一条第四項 (Article 51, paragraph (4)), art-51/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/income-tax-act/art-51/par-4 (e-Gov law ID 340AC0000000033) - art-196/par-3: 前二項 → 所得税法施行令 第百九十六条第一項 (Article 196, paragraph (1)), art-196/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/income-tax-act-enforcement-order/art-196/par-1 - art-196/par-3: 前二項 → 所得税法施行令 第百九十六条第二項 (Article 196, paragraph (2)), art-196/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/income-tax-act-enforcement-order/art-196/par-2 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 所得税法施行令 第百九十六条第二項（小規模事業者の収入及び費用の帰属時期） — https://japanlaw.org/en/income-tax-act-enforcement-order/art-196/par-2 - 所得税法施行令 第百九十六条第三項（小規模事業者の収入及び費用の帰属時期） — https://japanlaw.org/en/income-tax-act-enforcement-order/art-196/par-3 - 所得税法施行令 第百九十七条第一項（収入及び費用の帰属時期の特例を受けるための手続等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/income-tax-act-enforcement-order/art-197/par-1 - 所得税法施行令 第百九十七条第二項（収入及び費用の帰属時期の特例を受けるための手続等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/income-tax-act-enforcement-order/art-197/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 所得税法施行令 — the text in force from 2026-05-22 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/340CO0000000096/20260522_508CO0000000093), retrieved 2026-11-06 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Order for Enforcement of the Income Tax Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3121/tb), retrieved 2026-11-06 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch income-tax-act-enforcement-order-20261106T173921-054, translated 2026-11-07 - This site's parser, version 229 — 所得税法施行令 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06