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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="Act" Num="54" PromulgateDay="31" PromulgateMonth="3" Year="27">
  <PromulgateBody>
    <PromulgateStatement>I hereby promulgate the Law for Partial Amendments to the Corporation Tax Law.</PromulgateStatement>
    <ImperialSignature>Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor</ImperialSignature>
    <PromulgateDate>This thirty-first day of the third month of the twenty-seventh year of Showa (March 31, 1952)</PromulgateDate>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>YOSHIDA Shigeru</Name>
    </Signature>
  </PromulgateBody>
  <LawNum>Law No.54</LawNum>
  <LawBody>
    <LawTitle>Law for Partial Amendments to the Corporation Tax Law</LawTitle>
    <MainProvision>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The Corporation Tax Law (Law No.28 of 1947) shall be partially amended as follows:</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>In Article 9-(9), "and the corporation tax refunded due to over-payment" shall be amended as ", the amount refunded in accordance with the provision of Article 26-(5) paragraph 1 and the corporation tax refunded due to over-payment" .</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
        </AmendProvision>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>The following clause shall be added next to the former clause of Article 10 paragraph 2:</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
          <NewProvision>
            <Sentence Num="2">The same shall apply to the income tax refunded in accordance with the provision of Article 26-(5) paragraph 1.</Sentence>
          </NewProvision>
        </AmendProvision>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>In Article 26-(4) paragraph 6, "five months" shall be amended as "three months" ;and the following one Article shall be added next to the same Article:</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
          <NewProvision>
            <Article Num="26_5">
              <ArticleTitle>Article 26-(5).</ArticleTitle>
              <Paragraph Num="1">
                <ParagraphNum/>
                <ParagraphSentence>
                  <Sentence>In case there is the income tax which is allowed to be deducted from the corporation tax on the income for each accounting period of a corporation in accordance with the provision of Article 10 but could not actually be deducted from the said corporation tax, in the income tax paid in the said accounting period in accordance with the provisions of Article 18 of the Income Tax Law or Article 19 paragraph 1 of the Law for Temporary Exceptions to the Income Tax Law, if the said corporation requests the refund to the Government at the same time of filing the return of the said accounting period under the provisions of Article 18 or Article 21 or the return under the provisions of Article 23 which states the matters as provided for in Article 18 or Article 21, the Government shall refund the said income tax as may be prescribed by Order.</Sentence>
                </ParagraphSentence>
              </Paragraph>
              <Paragraph Num="2">
                <ParagraphNum/>
                <ParagraphSentence>
                  <Sentence>The corporation which intends to request for the refund of income tax under the provision of the preceding paragraph, shall file the written application with the Government stating therein the income tax paid in the said accounting period, the income tax which is allowed to be deducted from the corporation tax in accordance with the provisions of Article 10, the income tax which could not actually be deducted from the corporation tax for the said accounting period and other matters as may be prescribed by Order.</Sentence>
                </ParagraphSentence>
              </Paragraph>
              <Paragraph Num="3">
                <ParagraphNum/>
                <ParagraphSentence>
                  <Sentence>In the case where the refund of the amount (including the amount to be added in accordance with the provision of paragraph 4) under the provision of paragraph 1 is made, if there are unpaid national taxes and disposal charges of delinquency, the said amount shall be appropriated for these national taxes and charges.</Sentence>
                </ParagraphSentence>
              </Paragraph>
              <Paragraph Num="4">
                <ParagraphNum/>
                <ParagraphSentence>
                  <Sentence>In the case where the Government refunds the amount of income tax under the provision of paragraph 1, the Government shall add to the said amount of income tax to be refunded or to be appropriated, an amount computed by applying the rate of 4 sen per 100 yen per diem to the said amount depending on the period of term between the day following the due date of filing the return (in the case where the said return is the return under the provisions of Article 23, the day on which the said return was filed) which was filed simultaneously with the request for the refund of the said amount and the day when the said amount of refund is actually paid out or appropriated in accordance with the provision of the preceding paragraph.</Sentence>
                </ParagraphSentence>
              </Paragraph>
              <Paragraph Num="5">
                <ParagraphNum/>
                <ParagraphSentence>
                  <Sentence Num="1">The provision of the preceding paragraph shall not apply to the case where the amount to be refunded which is the basis of the computation of the amount to be added in accordance with the provision of the same paragraph is less than 1,000 yen. A fraction less than 1,000 yen in the said amount to be added shall be omitted in the computation.</Sentence>
                </ParagraphSentence>
              </Paragraph>
              <Paragraph Num="6">
                <ParagraphNum/>
                <ParagraphSentence>
                  <Sentence Num="1">In the case where the amount to be added in accordance with the provision of paragraph 4 is less than 10 yen, the said amount shall not be added. A fraction less than 10 yen in the said amount to be added shall be omitted.</Sentence>
                </ParagraphSentence>
              </Paragraph>
            </Article>
          </NewProvision>
        </AmendProvision>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>In Article 35 paragraph 1, "through the chief of taxation office who has made the said notification," shall be deleted;and paragraph 3 item 2 of the same Article shall be amended as follows:</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
          <NewProvision>
            <Item Num="2">
              <ItemTitle>2.</ItemTitle>
              <ItemSentence>
                <Sentence>In case the notification under the provision of paragraph 7 of the preceding Article has not been made within three months from the day on which the reinvestigation was requested, the day on which the said period has ended, except for the case where a corporation which made the request for reinvestigation has other-wise applied for.</Sentence>
              </ItemSentence>
            </Item>
          </NewProvision>
        </AmendProvision>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>In Article 39, "1,000,000 yen" shall be amended as "2,000,000 yen" , and "2,000,000 yen" shall be amended as "4,000,000 yen" .</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
        </AmendProvision>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>In Article 42 paragraph 1, "(in case there is the amount of corporation tax of which collection was postponed in accordance with the provision of Article 26-(3) paragraph 1, in the said corporation tax enumerated in item 1 or 2, the amount computed by applying the rate of 2 sen per 100 yen per diem to the said tax amount of which collection was postponed depending on the period of term which was allowed for the postponement of the said collection in the period as enumerated in these items)" shall be added next to "the amount computed...... per 100 yen per diem" .</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
        </AmendProvision>
      </Paragraph>
    </MainProvision>
    <SupplProvision>
      <SupplProvisionLabel>Supplementary Provisions:</SupplProvisionLabel>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum>1</ParagraphNum>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>This Law shall come into force as from April 1, 1952.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
      <Paragraph Num="2">
        <ParagraphNum>2</ParagraphNum>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The provisions of Article 9-(9), Article 10, Article 26-(4) and Article 42 of the Corporation Tax Law after amendments shall apply to the corporation taxes for the accounting period of a corporation which closes on or after January 1, 1952, and for those thereafter;and the provisions of Article 26-(5) of the Corporation Tax Law after amendment shall apply to the income tax which is allowed to be deducted from the corporation tax for the said accounting period of a corporation but could not actually be deducted from the said corporation tax, and those for the accounting periods there after;and with respect to the corporation tax for the accounting period of a corporation which closes before the same day, the old Law shall still prevail.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
      <Paragraph Num="3">
        <ParagraphNum>3</ParagraphNum>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>A corporation which filed the return under the provisions of Article 18 or 21 of the Corporation Tax Law or the return under the provisions of Article 23 stating therein the matters provided for in Article 18 or Article 21 on the corporation tax for the accounting period which closed on or after January 1, 1952, before the enforcement of this Law and then has newly under Article 26-(5) paragraph 1 of the Corporation Tax Law after amendments become able to get the refund of the income tax which is allowed to be deducted from the corporation tax for the said accounting period in accordance with the provision of Article 10 of the Corporation Tax Law but could not actually be deducted, may request for the said refund as provided for in the same paragraph within one month after the enforcement of this Law, notwithstanding the provision of the same paragraph.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
    </SupplProvision>
  </LawBody>
  <Signatures>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Finance</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>IKEDA Hayato</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>YOSHIDA Shigeru</Name>
    </Signature>
  </Signatures>
</Law>