Enacted Compliance

Japan — Qualified invoice transition reform

Jurisdiction
🇯🇵 Japan
Tax
Consumption Tax
Change type
Compliance
Status
Enacted
Effective
1 October 2026
Verified
Corroborated against official id · high confidence
The change

Japan 2026 Tax Reform (enacted by the Diet on 31 March 2026) restructures the qualified-invoice (Tekikaku Seikyusho) transitional input-credit measure for purchases from tax-exempt businesses to a step-down schedule - 70% from 1 October 2026, 50% from 1 October 2028, 30% from 1 October 2030, ending 30 September 2031 - and caps the transitional credit at JPY 100 million of purchases per supplier per taxable period from 1 October 2026.

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