The are 13-digit identifiers assigned by the
National Tax Agency
The is the official tax collecting agency of Japan. As of October 2018, the Commissioner of NTA is Takeshi Fujii.
Mission
Mission: To enable taxpayers to properly and smoothly fulfill their tax responsibility.
To achieve the mission stated abo ...
to
companies
A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of legal people, whether natural, juridical or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specifi ...
and other organizations registered in
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
. When filing tax returns or other forms related to taxation, employment or social insurance, assignees are required to print their own Corporate Number on the document.
Corporate Numbers were implemented in 2015, along with the 12-digit
Individual Numbers, which identify individual residents (including resident aliens) in Japan. Unlike Individual Numbers, whose disclosure to the public is punishable, Corporate Numbers are published by the National Tax Agency.
Format
A Corporate Number consists of 13 digits.
References
External links
Corporate Number Publication Site(by National Tax Agency)
About the Corporate Number(official introduction by National Tax Agency)
Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in the Administrative Procedure(English translation of the legal text)
Taxation in Japan
2015 establishments in Japan
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