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Statistics on Corporate Taxation in Business Year 2002

October 2003
National Tax Agency

Outline

1 Statistics on the number of corporations

*The number of corporations as of the end of business year 2002 (June 30, 2003) was 2,896 thousand, 12 thousand (0.4 percent) decrease from the previous year.

2 Statistics on declared tax

*Out of the corporations whose corporation tax filing were due during business year 2002 (between July 1, 2002 and June 30, 2003), the number of those that actually filed was 2,723 thousand, 8 thousand (0.3 percent) increase from the previous year.

*The ratio of declaration of income was 30.3 percent, 0.6 point decrease from the previous year.

*The amount of declared income was 35,029.9 billion yen, 1,168.3 billion yen (3.2 percent) decrease from the previous year. The amount of declared income per declaration of income was 41,680 thousand yen, 2.1 percentdecrease from the previous year.

*The amount of declared loss was 3,311.6 billion yen, 291.6 billion yen (6.8 percent) increase from the previous year. The amount of declared loss per declaration of loss was 17,070 thousand yen, 5.4 percent increase from the previous year.

3 Statistics on the tax amount

*The amount of declared corporation tax in business year 2002 was 9,350 billion yen, 265.2 billion yen (2.8 percent) decrease from the previous year.

*Out of the above tax amount, the amount of tax imposed through tax audit was 293.2 billion yen, 26.2 billion yen (9.8 percent) increase from the previous year.

*The additional tax amount was 59.1 billion yen, 2.5 billion yen (4.5percent) increase from the previous year.

4 Statistics on field audit

*In business year 2002, field audit was carried out for suspicious 122 thousand corporations including those that had been expected to conduct deceptive calculation

*Out of the audited corporations, 89 thousand corporations had done some miscalculation. Their undeclared income amount was 1,555.5 billion yen in total, 9.8 billion yen (0.6 percent) increase from the previous year.

*The number of corporations that made deceptive calculation by concealment was 25 thousand, one thousand (4.0 percent) decrease from the previous year. The rate of discovery of deceptive calculation was 20.7 percent.

*The amount of income evaded through deceptive calculation was 400.3 billion yen, fraud or 16.2 billion yen (4.2 percent) increase from the previous year.

*The types of businesses that show high rate of discovery of deceptive calculation were "bar and club," "pachinko," and "sale of books and magazines" in order of rate.

*The types of businesses that show large amount of evaded income perdeceptive declaration was "wooden building construction," "production of automobiles and their accessories," and "pachinko" in order of amount.

*The number of corporations that were audited with respect to the consumption tax was 109 thousand and some miscalculation was found in 57 thousand corporations out of them. The amount of tax imposed throughaudits was 66.6 billion yen.


Table 1
Statistics on the number of corporations

Classification

Item
As of June 30, 2002 As of June 30, 2003
Number Year-on-year Number Year-on-year
Number of corporations ,P In thousand 2,908 100.8 2,896 99.6

(Remark)Corporations under liquidation are excluded.

Table 2
Statistics of declaration

Business year

Item
2001 2002
Number, etc. Year-on-year Number, etc. Year-on-year
Number of declarations ,P In thousand 2,715 100.5 2,723 100.3
Ratio of declaration ,Q % 89.7 ▲ 0.7 89.0 ▲ 0.7
Ratio of declaration of income ,R % 30.9 ▲ 0.2 30.3 ▲ 0.6
Amount of declared income ,S 100 million yen 361,982 84.8 350,299 96.8
Amount of income per declaration of income ,T Thousand yen 42,555 84.5 41,681 97.9
Amount of declared loss ,U 100 million yen 309,200 113.7 330,116 106.8
Amount of loss per declaration of loss ,V Thousand yen 16,196 112.6 17,072 105.4

Table 3
Statistics on corporation tax amount

Business year

Item
2001 2002
Amount Year-on-year Amount Year-on-year
Tax
amount
Declared tax amount ,P 100 million yen 96,152 82.9 93,500 97.2
Amount of tax imposed through audits, etc. ,Q 100 million yen 2,670 97.4 2,932 109.8
Total tax amount ,R 100 million yen 98,822 83.3 96,432 97.6
Tax amount per corporation ,S Thousand yen 3,399 82.6 3,329 97.9
Amount of additional tax ,T 100 million yen 566 97.7 591 104.5

Table 4
Statistics on audits on the corporation tax

Business year

Item
2001 2002
Number, etc. Year-on-year Number, etc. Year-on-year
Number of field audits 1 In thousand 126 87.6 122 96.5
Number of correction and determinations 2 In thousand 91 87.3 89 97.5
Number of deceptive calculations out of the above item 3 In thousand 26 84.5 25 96.0
Amount of undeclared income 4 100 million yen 15,457 101.8 15,555 100.6
Amount of income evaded through deceptive calculation out of the above item 5 100 million yen 3,841 100.2 4,003 104.2
Amount of tax imposed through audits 6 100 million yen 3,888 101.9 4,173 107.3
Amount of additional tax out of the above item 7 100 million yen 601 99.9 647 107.7
Analysis Rate of discovery of deceptive calculation (3/1) 8 % 20.8 ▲ 0.7 20.7 ▲ 0.1
Amount of undeclared income per audit (4/1) 9 Thousand yen 12,262 116.2 12,793 104.3
Amount of evaded income per deceptive calculation (5/3) 10 Thousand yen 14,657 118.6 15,911 108.6

Table attached to Table 4
Statistics on the field audits on the consumption tax

Business year

Item
2001 2002
Number, etc. Year-on-year Number, etc. Year-on-year
Number of audits 1 In thousand 115 87.0 109 95.3
Number of miscalculations 2 In thousand 60 86.5 57 95.4
Amount of tax imposed through audits 3 100 million yen 602 85.1 666 110.7
Amount of additional tax out of the above item 4 100 million yen 98 92.9 114 116.2
Amount of tax imposed through audits par audit (3/1) 5 Thousand yen 525 97.9 609 116.0

(Remark)The amount of tax imposed through audits includes the amount of the Local Consumption Tax  (on domestic transaction).

Table 5
(1)Top 10 types of businesses with high rate of discovery of deceptive calculation (subclass) (Business year 2002)

Rank
Item


Type of business
Rate of discovery of deceptive calculation Amount of evaded income per deceptive calculation Rank in the previous year
1 Bar and club %
54.6
thousand yen
23,176
2
2 Pachinko 47.5 56,111 1
3 Sale of books and magazines 32.6 7,590 4
4 Waste disposal 32.2 20,354 3
5 Foreign meal 27.9 9,775 -
6 General civil engineering and construction 27.7 13,310 6
7 Civil work 27.1 11,087 5
8 Sale of automobiles and bicycles 25.3 5,999 -
9 Building work 24.6 10,658 -
9 Agriculture and stock raising 24.6 10,788 -

(2) Top 10 types of businesses with large amount of evaded income per deceptive calculation
(subclass)

(Business year 2002)

Rank
Item


Type of business
Amount of evaded income per deceptive calculation Rate of discovery of deceptive calculation Rank in the previous year
1 Wooden building construction Thousand yen
64,962
%
20.6
-
2 Production of automobiles and their accessories 63,426 22.2 7
3 Pachinko 56,111 47.5 1
4 Trade 42,923 16.1 6
5 Newspaper and publication 39,306 11.0 -
6 Wholesale of iron and steel 37,417 14.8 -
7 Other amusements 29,029 22.7 2
8 Transactions of ready-built houses and lands 28,698 23.9 -
9 Wholesale of fresh fish and seaweed 28,437 20.8 -
10 Wholesale of electric communication machines and devices 24,979 18.5 4

(Reference)
Statistics on audits on corporations that declare no income

Business year

Item
2001 2002
Number, etc. Year-on-year Number, etc. Year-on-year
Number of audits 1 In thousand 40 84.1 38 95.1
Number of correction and determinations 2 In thousand 27 83.4 26 97.1
Number of deceptive calculations out of the above item 3 In thousand 9 80.2 9 102.2
Amount of undeclared income 4 100 million yen 5,908 96.8 4,853 82.1
Amount of income evaded through deceptive calculation out of the above item 5 100 million yen 1,209 112.6 1,229 101.6
Amount of tax imposed through audits 6 100 million yen 463 108.3 387 83.7
Amount of additional tax out of the above item 7 100 million yen 90 110.7 77 85.0
Number of corporations with income that originally declared loss 8 In thousand 7 90.0 6 92.1
Analysis Rate of discovery of deceptive calculation (3/1) 9 % 21.9 ▲ 1.1 23.5 1.6
Amount of undeclared income per audit (4/1) 10 Thousand yen 14,635 115.0 12,644 86.4
Amount of evaded income per deceptive calculation (5/3) 11 Thousand yen 13,691 140.6 13,616 99.5
Ratio of corporations with income that originally declared loss (8/1) 12 % 16.6 1.1 16.1 ▲ 0.5