# 所得税法 / Income Tax Act — 第二百九条の三 (Article 209-3)

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- Law: 所得税法 (Income Tax Act), 昭和四十年法律第三十三号
- English title "Income Tax Act": Ministry of Justice translation
- 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: 第二百九条の三 (Article 209-3)（徴収税額） — address `art-209-3`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第二百九条の三（徴収税額） — Amount of Taxes Withheld
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-209-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/income-tax-act/art-209-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/340AC0000000033/art-209-3</sup>

    **第一項**  前条の規定により徴収すべき所得税の額は、同条に規定する給付補てん金、利息、利益又は差益の額に百分の十五の税率を乗じて計算した金額とする。
    <sup>art-209-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/income-tax-act/art-209-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/340AC0000000033/art-209-3/par-1</sup>
    The amount of income taxes to be withheld pursuant to the preceding Article is the amount calculated by multiplying the amount of the compensation for periodic deposits, finance charges, profits, or margin profits prescribed in that Article by a tax rate of 15 percent.
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-209-3/par-1: 前条 → 所得税法 第二百九条の二 (Article 209-2), art-209-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/income-tax-act/art-209-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/340AC0000000033/art-209-2

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 所得税法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/340AC0000000033/20261001_507AC0000000070), retrieved 2026-10-05
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Income Tax Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3120/tb), retrieved 2026-09-18
- claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch income-tax-act-20260918T180319-038, translated 2026-09-18
- This site's parser, version 223 — 所得税法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-05