# 消費税法 / Consumption Tax Act — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)

- 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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)（消費税法の一部改正に伴う経過措置の原則） — address `suppl-4061-109/art-7`
- 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-7
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### 第七条（消費税法の一部改正に伴う経過措置の原則） — Principles of Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Consumption Tax Act
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4061-109/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumption-tax-act/suppl-4061-109/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/suppl-4061-109/art-7</sup>

**第一項**  この附則に別段の定めがあるものを除き、第三条の規定による改正後の消費税法（以下「新消費税法」という。）の規定は、平成九年四月一日（以下「適用日」という。）以後に国内において事業者が行う資産の譲渡等及び適用日以後に国内において事業者が行う課税仕入れ並びに適用日以後に保税地域から引き取られる外国貨物に係る消費税について適用し、適用日前に国内において事業者が行った資産の譲渡等及び適用日前に国内において事業者が行った課税仕入れ並びに適用日前に保税地域から引き取った外国貨物に係る消費税については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4061-109/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumption-tax-act/suppl-4061-109/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/suppl-4061-109/art-7/par-1</sup>
Except as otherwise provided in these Supplementary Provisions, the provisions of the Consumption Tax Act after the amendment by the provisions of Article 3 (hereinafter referred to as the "New Consumption Tax Act") apply to consumption tax on transfers, etc. of assets made by a business operator in Japan on or after April 1, 1997 (hereinafter referred to as the "application date"), on taxable purchases made by a business operator in Japan on or after the application date, and on foreign goods taken out of a bonded area on or after the application date, and the provisions then in force continue to govern consumption tax on transfers, etc. of assets made by a business operator in Japan before the application date, on taxable purchases made by a business operator in Japan before the application date, and on foreign goods taken out of a bonded area before the application date.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## 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-20261013T073630-029, 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
