Article 72-1. In case a taxpayer's property held on the date of investigation has been damaged, within the period as are enumerated hereunder, due to earthquake, flood, lightning, fire, volcanic eruption or any other act of God (excluding old account property and quasi-old-account property, and including the properties deemed to have replaced for the properties as owned at the date of investigation; the same goes in this Article) (including the case where the value of shares or other contributions of a corporation has heavily declined because of natural calamities referred to above), if the amount of damaged property exceeds 30% of the value of properties as owned at the date of investigation or 100,000 yen (in respect of co-living families, the total amount of damaged property exceeding 30% of the value of properties owned on the date of investigation by the families or 100,000 yen) and the taxpayer is acknowledged by the superintendent of a taxation office to be scarcely able to pay the tax, the superintendent of a taxation office may abate or exempt from the capital levy equivalent to the amount as are enumerated in each item hereunder.