# 地方税法 / Local Tax Act — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)

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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
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- Provision: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)（事業税に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5031-7/art-5`
- Text in force since: 2026-11-01
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### 第五条（事業税に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Enterprise Tax
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-5031-7/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/suppl-5031-7/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/suppl-5031-7/art-5</sup>

**第一項**  新法の規定中法人の事業税に関する部分は、施行日以後に開始する事業年度に係る法人の事業税について適用し、施行日前に開始した事業年度に係る法人の事業税については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-5031-7/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/local-tax-act/suppl-5031-7/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/suppl-5031-7/art-5/par-1</sup>
The provisions of the New Act relating to corporate enterprise tax apply to corporate enterprise tax for business years beginning on or after the Effective Date, and the provisions then in force continue to govern corporate enterprise tax for business years that began before the Effective Date.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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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-20261027T214204-240, translated 2026-10-28
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch local-tax-act-20261027T214204-303, 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