# 租税特別措置法 / Act on Special Measures Concerning Taxation — 第五十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 59)

- 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
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- Provision: 第五十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 59)（情報基盤強化設備等を取得した場合の特別償却又は法人税額の特別控除に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4201-23/art-59`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第五十九条（情報基盤強化設備等を取得した場合の特別償却又は法人税額の特別控除に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Special Depreciation or the Special Corporation Tax Credit Where Information Infrastructure Enhancement Equipment, etc. Is Acquired
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4201-23/art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/en/special-taxation-measures-act/suppl-4201-23/art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/suppl-4201-23/art-59</sup>

**第一項**  新租税特別措置法第四十二条の十一の規定は、法人の施行日以後に終了する事業年度分の法人税について適用し、法人の施行日前に終了した事業年度分の法人税については、なお従前の例による。この場合において、同条第一項に規定する大規模法人として政令で定める法人の施行日前に開始し、かつ、施行日以後に終了する事業年度における同条の規定の適用については、同項中「（大規模法人として政令で定める法人の当該供用年度の指定期間内における適用対象投資額」とあるのは「（平成二十年四月一日から当該供用年度終了の日までの期間内に事業の用に供した情報基盤強化設備等の取得価額の合計額」と、「には、二百億円に当該情報基盤強化設備等の取得価額が当該適用対象投資額」とあるのは「における当該期間内に事業の用に供した情報基盤強化設備等の取得価額については、二百億円に当該取得価額が当該合計額」とする。
<sup>suppl-4201-23/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/special-taxation-measures-act/suppl-4201-23/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/suppl-4201-23/art-59/par-1</sup>
The provisions of Article 42-11 of the New Act on Special Measures Concerning Taxation apply to corporation tax for business years of a corporation ending on or after the Effective Date, and the provisions then in force continue to govern corporation tax for business years of a corporation that ended before the Effective Date. In this case, with regard to the application of the provisions of that Article in a business year of a corporation specified by Cabinet Order as a large-scale corporation prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article that began before the Effective Date and ends on or after the Effective Date, the phrase "(where the covered investment amount, within the designated period of that year of commencement of use, of a corporation specified by Cabinet Order as a large-scale corporation" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "(where the total acquisition cost of information infrastructure enhancement equipment, etc. put to business use within the period from April 1, 2008 to the end of that year of commencement of use"; and the phrase ", the amount calculated by multiplying 20 billion yen by the ratio of the acquisition cost of that information infrastructure enhancement equipment, etc. to that covered investment amount" is deemed to be replaced with ", for the acquisition cost of information infrastructure enhancement equipment, etc. put to business use within that period, the amount calculated by multiplying 20 billion yen by the ratio of that acquisition cost to that total amount".
<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-20261007T211206-485, 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
