# 国税通則法 / Act on General Rules for National Taxes — 第七条 (Article 7)

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- Law: 国税通則法 (Act on General Rules for National Taxes), 昭和三十七年法律第六十六号
- English title "Act on General Rules for National Taxes": Ministry of Justice translation
- 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: 第七条 (Article 7)（人格のない社団等に係る国税の納付義務の承継） — address `art-7`
- Text in force since: 2026-11-01
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### 第七条（人格のない社団等に係る国税の納付義務の承継） — Succession to the Obligation to Pay National Tax of an Association or Foundation without Legal Personality
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-tax-general-rules-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/337AC0000000066/art-7</sup>

  **第一項**  法人が人格のない社団等の財産に属する権利義務を包括して承継した場合には、その法人は、その人格のない社団等に課されるべき、又はその人格のない社団等が納付し、若しくは徴収されるべき国税（その承継が権利義務の一部についてされたときは、その国税の額にその承継の時における人格のない社団等の財産のうちにその法人が承継した財産の占める割合を乗じて計算した額の国税）を納める義務を承継する。
  <sup>art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-tax-general-rules-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/337AC0000000066/art-7/par-1</sup>
  If a corporation comprehensively succeeds to the rights and obligations belonging to the property of an association or foundation without legal personality, that corporation succeeds to the obligation to pay the national tax that should be imposed on the association or foundation without legal personality, or that the association or foundation without legal personality should pay or that should be collected from it (if the succession covers only part of those rights and obligations, national tax in the amount calculated by multiplying the amount of that national tax by the proportion of the property of the association or foundation without legal personality at the time of the succession that the property succeeded to by the corporation represents).
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 国税通則法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/337AC0000000066/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-09-18
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on General Rules for National Taxes — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3119/tb), retrieved 2026-09-18
- claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch national-tax-general-rules-act-20260918T174921-001, translated 2026-09-18
- This site's parser, version 223 — 国税通則法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-18
