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Notification of Corporate Number

The Commissioner of the National Tax Agency designates the Corporate Number to each corporation and notifies the number by the "Notification of Corporate Number" in accordance with the provisions of the Number Act.

1. (Note)Please understand that we do not provide the Notification of Corporate Number in English.

Descriptions in the Notification

The descriptions in the Notification of Corporate Number are provided based on the registered information in the possession of the National Tax Agency or information notified to a tax office as of the date of preparation of Notification of Corporate Number.

Mailing Address of Recipient

• Corporation's registered address is described if a corporation is incorporated by registration.

• Corporation's address which is provided in documents or statements submitted to a tax office is described if a corporation is not incorporated by registration or an association without juridical personality.

• The address of the principal place of business or of tax representative office in Japan which is provided in documents or statements submitted to a tax office is described if a corporation is a foreign corporation or the like which has a place of business or office in Japan.

Date and Year of Preparation

The date and year of preparation of the Notification of Corporate Number is described at the upper right part of the notice.

Corporate Number

The 13-digit Corporate Number designated by the Commissioner of the National Tax Agency is described. Even if the “trade name or name” or the “address of head office or principal place of business” changes after the Corporate Number is designated, the Corporate Number will not be changed.

Person Who Has Been Designated Corporate Number

• Trade Name or Name

  The registered trade name or name is described if a corporation is incorporated by registration.
  If a corporation is not incorporated by registration or an association without juridical personality, the name specified in documents submitted to a tax office or the name in an application for obtaining the Corporate Number is described.

• Address of Head Office or Principal Place of Business

  The registered address is described if a corporation is incorporated by registration.
  If a corporation is not incorporated by registration or an association without juridical personality, the address specified in documents submitted to a tax office or the address specified in an application for obtaining the Corporate Number is described.

• Address of Principal Place of Business or the Like in Japan

  If a person who has been designated the Corporate Number is a foreign corporation or the like, the address of its office or place of business in Japan is described.

1. (Note)If you wish to confirm the registered matters with respect to the information described in this section, please contact the competent registry office with which you have filed an application for registration.

Date and Year of Designation of Corporate Number

The date and year of designation of the Corporate Number by the Commissioner of the National Tax Agency is described.

Information as Displayed on National Tax Agency's Corporate Number Publication Site

The information as displayed on the National Tax Agency's Corporate Number Publication Site is described.

Since the JIS third or fourth letters or nonstandard letters may not be entered from or displayed on personal computers used by users, the letters in a registered trade name and address are replaced with the JIS first or second level letters in advance so that they are properly displayed on the "National Tax Agency's Corporate Number Publication Site." For example, the letter "" is replaced with "".

1. (Note)The Basic 3 Information of an association without juridical personality or the like is not published without the prior consent of its representative or manager. The fact that there are descriptions in this section does not mean that the information has been published.

Other

The following actions have been taken for the Notification of Corporate Number in writing.

• If a copy of the Notification of Corporate Number is made with a photocopier or in any other way, the Japanese characters ""("copy") will appear in the box frame under the "Date and Year of Preparation" section.
• Micro letters ("NTA") are used for the top and bottom lines of the box frame.
• "NTA" is printed in the head and bottom margins of the notice (in 12 locations for each) with special ink.

1. (Note) NTA is an abbreviation of the National Tax Agency.

The following actions have been taken for Notifications of Corporate Numbers sent online.

• Notifications of Corporate Numbers are shown on users' screens in PDF format, similar to its printed form.
• The government post signature of the Commissioner of the National Tax Agency is affixed, based on Government Public Key Infrastructure (GPKI). The way that Corporate Number Notifications sent online are shown on users' screens is almost the same as in the case of printed notifications, but the following caution is added.

This caution is added to instruct users that, since the original of the Notification of Corporate Number distributed online is a data file, any printed copy on paper is not an original.

"Questions regarding the Designation of Corporate Number" is enclosed in the Notification of Corporate Number for corporations other than those registered for incorporation and for associations or the like without juridical personality, which are designated a Corporate Number based on the documents under the tax law, such as the Notification of Commencement of Profit-making Business or the like, submitted to a tax office.

• Questions regarding the Designation of Corporate Number (PDF/522KB)