What is the Corporate Number in Japan? / 法人番号とは?
What is the Corporate Number in Japan?
What is the Corporeta Number?
The corporare nubmer（法人番号） is the number given to each company upon its establishment. The number consists of 13 digit numbers and supposedly used for multi administretive purposes. The issuance and usage are goverened by the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in the Administrative Procedure.
How to get the number?
After the completion of registration of establishment, the notification letter will be send by postal mail to the adress of the head office or main office on the registration, usually it takes a couple of days. If you couldn't get the notice for some reaoson, no sweats, there is the website https://www.houjin-bangou.nta.go.jp/en/ to check it out with some other information of its trade name and its head office address.
In ocoasion you need to show your corporate number in written form to such as financial institutions or government agencies, you can use the printed corporate information screen on this site.
When you use the number?
The corporete number is required to provide when you open the company's bank accounts or when you recieve certain types of fees such as professional fees or property rental fees. The use of the number are currently limited but its occasions will be expected to get expanded.
Small Tips
The corporate number（法人番号） consists of 13 digits, but the 12-digit number excluding the initial number is the different number called company corporate number（会社法人番号）. The company corporate number is used for when you apply for getting a copy of you corporation registrer.
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