# 国税徴収法 / National Tax Collection Act — 制定文（一） (Enacting Statement 1)

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- Law: 国税徴収法 (National Tax Collection Act), 昭和三十四年法律第百四十七号
- English title "National Tax Collection 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: 制定文（一） (Enacting Statement 1) — address `enact-1`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-25
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-tax-collection-act/enact-1
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000147/enact-1
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- Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below.

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**制定文（一）**  国税徴収法（明治三十年法律第二十一号）の全部を改正する。
<sup>enact-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-tax-collection-act/enact-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000147/enact-1</sup>
The National Tax Collection Act (Act No. 21 of 1897) is revised in its entirety.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 国税徴収法 — the text in force from 2026-05-25 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/334AC0000000147/20260525_506AC0000000052), retrieved 2026-11-02
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — National Tax Collection Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3874/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch national-tax-collection-act-20261102T030741-001, translated 2026-11-02
- This site's parser, version 222 — 国税徴収法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02
