# 地方税法 / Local Tax Act — 第四百五十四条 (Article 454)

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- Law: 地方税法 (Local Tax Act), 昭和二十五年法律第二百二十六号
- English title "Local Tax Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title
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- Provision: 第四百五十四条 (Article 454)（軽自動車税に係る不申告等に関する過料） — address `art-454`
- Text in force since: 2026-11-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/local-tax-act/art-454
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### 第四百五十四条（軽自動車税に係る不申告等に関する過料） — Non-Penal Fine for Failure to File, etc. Relating to Light Motor Vehicle Tax
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-454 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/local-tax-act/art-454 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-454</sup>

    **第一項**  市町村は、軽自動車税の納税義務者又は第四百四十四条第一項に規定する軽自動車等の売主が第四百五十二条の規定により申告し、又は報告すべき事項について正当な事由がなくて申告又は報告をしなかつた場合には、その者に対し、当該市町村の条例で十万円以下の過料を科する旨の規定を設けることができる。
    <sup>art-454/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/local-tax-act/art-454/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-454/par-1</sup>
    A municipality may establish, in its Municipal Ordinance, a provision imposing a non-penal fine of 100,000 yen or less on a person liable to pay light motor vehicle tax or a seller of light motor vehicles, etc. prescribed in Article 444, paragraph (1) if that person, without justifiable grounds, fails to file a return or report on matters to be declared or reported under Article 452.
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-454/par-1: 第四百四十四条第一項 → 地方税法 第四百四十四条第一項 (Article 444, paragraph (1)), art-444/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/local-tax-act/art-444/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-444/par-1
- art-454/par-1: 第四百五十二条 → 地方税法 第四百五十二条 (Article 452), art-452 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/local-tax-act/art-452 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/art-452

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 地方税法 附則第三十条の二第二項（軽自動車税の賦課徴収の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/local-tax-act/suppl-3251-226/art-30-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/suppl-3251-226/art-30-2/par-2

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 地方税法 — the text in force from 2026-10-16 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/325AC0000000226/20261016_508AC0000000002), retrieved 2026-10-27
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 地方税法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/487), retrieved 2026-09-18
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch local-tax-act-20261027T202151-176, translated 2026-10-28
- claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch local-tax-act-20261027T202151-176, translated 2026-10-28
- This site's parser, version 218 — 地方税法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-27
