# 租税特別措置法 / Act on Special Measures Concerning Taxation — 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16)

- Law: 租税特別措置法 (Act on Special Measures Concerning Taxation), 昭和三十二年法律第二十六号
- English title "Act on Special Measures Concerning Taxation": 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: 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16)（罰則に関する経過規定） — address `suppl-3401-36/art-16`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/special-taxation-measures-act/suppl-3401-36/art-16
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/suppl-3401-36/art-16
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### 第十六条（罰則に関する経過規定） — Transitional Provisions Concerning Penal Provisions
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3401-36/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/en/special-taxation-measures-act/suppl-3401-36/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/suppl-3401-36/art-16</sup>

**第一項**  施行日前にした行為及びこの附則の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる国税に係る同日以後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-3401-36/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/special-taxation-measures-act/suppl-3401-36/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/suppl-3401-36/art-16/par-1</sup>
With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before the Effective Date and to acts committed on or after that date with respect to national taxes for which the provisions then in force are to continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of these Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 租税特別措置法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/332AC0000000026/20261001_508AC0000000012), retrieved 2026-10-07
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Special Measures Concerning Taxation — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3132/tb), retrieved 2026-10-07
- claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation, batch special-taxation-measures-act-20261007T211206-267, translated 2026-10-08
- This site's parser, version 165 — 租税特別措置法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-07