# 地方税法 / Local Tax Act — 第三百八十五条 (Article 385)

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- Law: 地方税法 (Local Tax Act), 昭和二十五年法律第二百二十六号
- English title "Local 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: 第三百八十五条 (Article 385)（固定資産に係る虚偽の申告等に関する罪） — address `art-385`
- Text in force since: 2026-11-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-385
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-385
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### 第三百八十五条（固定資産に係る虚偽の申告等に関する罪） — Offenses Concerning False Reports, etc. Relating to Fixed Assets
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-385 · https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-385 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-385</sup>

    **第一項**  第三百八十三条から前条までの規定により申告すべき事項について虚偽の申告をしたときは、その違反行為をした者は、一年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。
    <sup>art-385/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-385/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-385/par-1</sup>
    If a person makes a false report on matters that must be reported under the provisions of Article 383 through the preceding Article, the person who committed the violation is to be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen.
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

    **第二項**  法人の代表者又は法人若しくは人の代理人、使用人その他の従業者がその法人又は人の業務又は財産に関して前項の違反行為をした場合には、その行為者を罰するほか、その法人又は人に対し、同項の罰金刑を科する。
    <sup>art-385/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-385/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-385/par-2</sup>
    Where a representative of a corporation, or an agent, employee or other worker of a corporation or person, has committed a violation set forth in the preceding paragraph in connection with the business or property of that corporation or person, in addition to punishing the offender, the fine prescribed in that paragraph is to be imposed on that corporation or person.
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-385/par-1: 第三百八十三条から前条まで → 地方税法 第三百八十三条 (Article 383), art-383 — https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-383 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-383
- art-385/par-1: 第三百八十三条から前条まで → 地方税法 第三百八十四条 (Article 384), art-384 — https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-384 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-384
- art-385/par-1: 第三百八十三条から前条まで → 地方税法 第三百八十四条の二 (Article 384-2), art-384-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-384-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-384-2
- art-385/par-1: 第三百八十三条から前条まで → 地方税法 第三百八十四条の三 (Article 384-3), art-384-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-384-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-384-3
- art-385/par-2: 前項 → 地方税法 第三百八十五条第一項 (Article 385, paragraph (1)), art-385/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-385/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-385/par-1

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 地方税法 第三百八十五条第二項（固定資産に係る虚偽の申告等に関する罪） — https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-385/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-385/par-2
- 地方税法 第七百四十五条第一項（道府県が課する固定資産税の賦課徴収等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/art-745/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-745/par-1

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 地方税法 — the text in force from 2026-10-16 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/325AC0000000226/20261016_508AC0000000002), retrieved 2026-10-27
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 地方税法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/487), retrieved 2026-09-18
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch local-tax-act-20261027T214204-063, translated 2026-10-28
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch local-tax-act-20261027T214204-132, translated 2026-10-28
- This site's parser, version 218 — 地方税法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-27
