# 租税特別措置法 / Act on Special Measures Concerning Taxation — 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16)

- Law: 租税特別措置法 (Act on Special Measures Concerning Taxation), 昭和三十二年法律第二十六号
- English title "Act on Special Measures Concerning Taxation": 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: 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16)（長期外貨建債権等を有する場合の課税の特例に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3511-5/art-16`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/special-taxation-measures-act/suppl-3511-5/art-16
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/suppl-3511-5/art-16
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### 第十六条（長期外貨建債権等を有する場合の課税の特例に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Special Provisions on Taxation in the Case of Holding Long-Term Foreign Currency Denominated Claims, etc.
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3511-5/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/special-taxation-measures-act/suppl-3511-5/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/suppl-3511-5/art-16</sup>

**第一項**  昭和四十七年四月一日から昭和五十一年三月三十一日までの期間内の日を含む各事業年度のいずれか一以上の事業年度において旧法第六十八条の二第一項に規定する準備金の積立てを行つた法人が、昭和五十一年四月一日以後に開始する事業年度において当該準備金を積み立てる場合には、同項中「昭和五十一年三月三十一日」とあるのは、「昭和五十三年三月三十一日」として、同条の規定の例による。
<sup>suppl-3511-5/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/special-taxation-measures-act/suppl-3511-5/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/suppl-3511-5/art-16/par-1</sup>
In the case where a corporation that accumulated the reserve prescribed in Article 68-2, paragraph (1) of the Former Act in any one or more of the business years each of which includes a day within the period from April 1, 1972 to March 31, 1976 accumulates that reserve in a business year commencing on or after April 1, 1976, the provisions of that Article are to govern, with the phrase "March 31, 1976" in that paragraph deemed to be replaced with "March 31, 1978".
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 租税特別措置法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/332AC0000000026/20261001_508AC0000000012), retrieved 2026-10-07
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Special Measures Concerning Taxation — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3132/tb), retrieved 2026-10-07
- claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation, batch special-taxation-measures-act-20261007T211206-297, translated 2026-10-08
- This site's parser, version 165 — 租税特別措置法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-07
