# 消費税法 / Consumption Tax Act — 第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18)

- Law: 消費税法 (Consumption Tax Act), 昭和六十三年法律第百八号
- English title "Consumption Tax Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title
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- Provision: 第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18)（売上げに係る対価の返還等をした場合の消費税額の控除に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4061-109/art-18`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumption-tax-act/suppl-4061-109/art-18
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/suppl-4061-109/art-18
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### 第十八条（売上げに係る対価の返還等をした場合の消費税額の控除に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Deduction of Consumption Tax in the Case of Making a Refund, etc. of Consideration for Sales
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4061-109/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumption-tax-act/suppl-4061-109/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/suppl-4061-109/art-18</sup>

**第一項**  新消費税法第三十八条第一項（売上げに係る対価の返還等をした場合の消費税額の控除）に規定する事業者が、適用日前に国内において行った課税資産の譲渡等につき、適用日以後に同項に規定する売上げに係る対価の返還等をした場合には、当該売上げに係る対価の返還等に係る同条の規定による消費税額の控除については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4061-109/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumption-tax-act/suppl-4061-109/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/suppl-4061-109/art-18/par-1</sup>
If a business operator prescribed in Article 38, paragraph (1) (Deduction of Amount of Consumption Tax When Refunds, etc. of Consideration for Sales Are Made) of the New Consumption Tax Act, with respect to a taxable transfer, etc. of assets made in Japan before the application date, makes on or after the application date a refund, etc. of consideration for sales prescribed in that paragraph, the provisions then in force continue to govern the deduction of consumption tax under the provisions of that Article for that refund, etc. of consideration for sales.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4061-109/art-18/par-1: 新消費税法第三十八条第一項 → 消費税法 第三十八条第一項 (Article 38, paragraph (1)), art-38/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumption-tax-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/art-38/par-1
- suppl-4061-109/art-18/par-1: 同条 → 消費税法 第三十八条 (Article 38), art-38 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumption-tax-act/art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/art-38

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 消費税法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumption-tax-act/suppl-4061-109/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/suppl-4061-109/art-1/par-1
- 消費税法 附則第二十四条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumption-tax-act/suppl-4061-109/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/suppl-4061-109/art-24/par-1

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 消費税法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/363AC0000000108/20261001_507AC0000000070), retrieved 2026-10-13
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 消費税法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/1176), retrieved 2026-09-18
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch consumption-tax-act-20261013T073630-031, translated 2026-10-13
- This site's parser, version 190 — 消費税法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13
