# 国税通則法 / Act on General Rules for National Taxes — 第一条 (Article 1)

This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/national-tax-general-rules-act/art-1. 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: 国税通則法 (Act on General Rules for National Taxes), 昭和三十七年法律第六十六号
- English title "Act on General Rules for National Taxes": 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: 第一条 (Article 1)（目的） — address `art-1`
- Text in force since: 2026-11-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-tax-general-rules-act/art-1
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/337AC0000000066/art-1
- Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it.
- Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below.

Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text
below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and
says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this
site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names.
They are never merged and never substituted for one another.

---

### 第一条（目的） — Purpose
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-tax-general-rules-act/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/337AC0000000066/art-1</sup>

  **第一項**  この法律は、国税についての基本的な事項及び共通的な事項を定め、税法の体系的な構成を整備し、かつ、国税に関する法律関係を明確にするとともに、税務行政の公正な運営を図り、もつて国民の納税義務の適正かつ円滑な履行に資することを目的とする。
  <sup>art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-tax-general-rules-act/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/337AC0000000066/art-1/par-1</sup>
  The purpose of this Act is to establish basic and common matters concerning national taxes, to put in order the systematic structure of the tax laws, and to clarify the legal relationships concerning national taxes, as well as to ensure the fair operation of tax administration, and thereby to contribute to the proper and smooth performance of the people's tax liability.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

---

## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 国税通則法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/337AC0000000066/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-09-18
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on General Rules for National Taxes — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3119/tb), retrieved 2026-09-18
- claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch national-tax-general-rules-act-20260918T174921-001, translated 2026-09-18
- This site's parser, version 223 — 国税通則法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-18