# 地方税法 / Local Tax Act — 第十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 12) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/local-tax-act/suppl-4061-111/art-12. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - 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 - 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: 第十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 12)（検討） — address `suppl-4061-111/art-12` - Text in force since: 2026-11-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/local-tax-act/suppl-4061-111/art-12 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/suppl-4061-111/art-12 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十二条（検討） — Review caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4061-111/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/local-tax-act/suppl-4061-111/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/suppl-4061-111/art-12 **第一項** 地方消費税の税率については、社会福祉等に要する費用の財源を確保する観点、地方の行財政改革の推進状況、非課税等特別措置等に係る課税の適正化の状況、地方財政の状況等を総合的に勘案して検討を加え、必要があると認めるときは、平成八年九月三十日までに所要の措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-4061-111/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/local-tax-act/suppl-4061-111/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/suppl-4061-111/art-12/par-1 The rate of local consumption tax is to be reviewed, taking comprehensively into account the perspective of securing financial resources for expenses required for social welfare, etc., the state of progress of administrative and fiscal reform of localities, the state of rationalization of taxation relating to tax exemptions and other special measures, the state of local finance, etc., and if it is found necessary, required measures are to be taken by September 30, 1996. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 地方税法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/local-tax-act/suppl-4061-111/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000226/suppl-4061-111/art-1/par-1/item-1 --- ## 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-20261027T214204-238, translated 2026-10-28 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch local-tax-act-20261027T214204-256, 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