Gunma prefecture asks cooperation in shortening the business hours to prevent the spread of COVID-19 as follows.
Request for cooperation in shortening business hours
During Alert Level-4
Duration
August 7th, 2021 (Sat.) for 1 day
Target Area
All areas in the prefecture (35 municipalities)
Target Business
Restaurants, tea rooms, cafeterias, and amusement facilities (snack bars, karaoke shops, etc.) that open from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m.
- Except delivery services and take-out services.
- Business operators of stores that have obtained a restaurant business license (Food Sanitation Law) are subject to request.
- As for restaurants that have qualified as the “Stop Corona! Countermeasure Store” but except restaurants with entertainment services, although shortening of their business hours will be requested, they will be able to continue their business by taking appropriate infection prevention measures. In this case, cooperation money will not be applicable.
Details of the request
- Refrain from operating between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m.
- Alcoholic beverages are served from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
- Taking infection prevention measures
During Priority Preventive Measures (Stricter COVID-19 Measures)
Duration
August 8th, 2021 (Sun.) – August 31st (Tue.) for 24 days
Target Area
Priority Action Area
20 municipalities (Maebashi, Takasaki, Kiryu, Isesaki, Ota, Numata, Tatebayashi, Shibukawa, Fujioka, Tomioka, Annaka, Midori, Shinto, Yoshioka, Tamamra, Itakura, Meiwa, Chiyoda, Oizumi, and Oura)
Other Area
Other 15 municipalities
Target Business
Restaurants, tea rooms, cafeterias, and amusement facilities (snack bars, karaoke shops, etc.) that open from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m.
- Except delivery services and take-out services.
- Business operators of stores that have obtained a restaurant business license (Food Sanitation Law) are subject to request.
Details of the request
Priority Action Area
- Refrain from operating between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m.
- Refrain from serving alcoholic beverages all day.
- Refrain from using karaoke facilities all day (only for stores whose main business is food and beverage).
- Taking infection prevention measures
Other Area
- Refrain from operating between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m.
- Alcoholic beverages are served from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
- Refrain from using karaoke facilities all day (only for stores whose main business is food and beverage).
- Taking infection prevention measures
During the Declaration of a State of Emergency
Duration
August 20th, 2021 (Fri.) – September 12th (Sun.) for 24 days
Target Area
Priority Action Area
All municipality in the prefecture (35 municipalities)
Target Business
Restaurants, tea rooms, cafeterias, and amusement facilities (snack bars, karaoke shops, etc.)
- Except delivery services and take-out services.
- Business operators of stores that have obtained a restaurant business license (Food Sanitation Law) are subject to request.
Details of the request
- Close restaurants that serve alcoholic beverages or karaoke machines.
- Restaurants other than those listed above should refrain from operating between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m.
- Taking infection prevention measures
Cooperation Money
Eligible Persons
Business operators of restaurants in the target area who are cooperating in the requests from the prefecture during the entire request period.
However, in the case of unavoidable circumstances, if you start shortening business hours by August 11th, we will pay you a cooperation money with reducing an amount for the days up to the day before the start date.
Amount of Cooperation Money
Priority Action Area (Aug./8 ~ Aug./19)
| Calculation Method | Business Size |
Net Sales a day |
Cooperation Money / day |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sales Amount Method | Medium-Small Sized | 75,000 yen or less | 30,000 yen |
| Over 75,000 yen to 250,000 yen | Sales per day × 0.4 | ||
| Over 250,000 yen | 100,000 yen | ||
| Sales Decrease Method |
Large Sized (Medium-Small Sized is also possible to choose.) |
500,000 yen or less (Amount of sales decrease) |
40% of sales decrease amount |
|
Over 500,000 yen (Amount of sales decrease) |
200,000 yen |
Other Area (Aug./8 ~ Aug./19)
| Calculation Method | Business Size |
Net Sales a day |
Cooperation Money / day |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sales Amount Method | Medium-Small Sized | 83,333 yen or less | 25,000 yen |
| Over 83,333 yen to 250,000 yen | Sales per day × 0.3 | ||
| Over 250,000 yen | 75,000 yen | ||
| Sales Decrease Method |
Large Sized (Medium-Small Sized is also possible to choose.) |
500,000 yen or less (Amount of sales decrease) |
40% of sales decrease amount or sales per day × 0.3, whichever is lower |
|
Over 500,000 yen (Amount of sales decrease) |
200,000 yen or sales per day × 0.3, whichever is lower |
Area of Declaration of a State of Emergency (Aug./20 ~ Sep./12)
| Calculation Method | Business Size |
Net Sales a day |
Cooperation Money / day |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sales Amount Method | Medium-Small Sized | 100,000 yen or less | 40,000 yen |
| Over 100,000 yen to 250,000 yen | Sales per day × 0.4 | ||
| Over 250,000 yen | 100,000 yen | ||
| Sales Decrease Method |
Large Sized (Medium-Small Sized is also possible to choose.) |
500,000 yen or less (Amount of sales decrease) |
40% of sales decrease amount |
|
Over 500,000 yen (Amount of sales decrease) |
200,000 yen |
Definition of “Net sales a day”
For Aug./7 ~ Aug./19: (Sales in August of the previous year or two years ago ÷31) (Rounded up to the nearest one yen)
For Aug./20 ~ Sep./12: (Sales in August and September of the previous year or two years ago ÷61) (Rounded up to the nearest one yen)
Net sales shall be defined as sales of restaurant business, excluding consumption tax and local consumption tax.
Application Procedures
Applications for the prefecture’s own request to shorten business hours (on Aug./7), the request to shorten business hours under Priority Preventive Measures (Stricter COVID-19 Measures) (Aug./8 ~ 31), and the request under the declaration of a state of emergency (Aug./20 ~ Sep./12) will be accepted at once.
For small and medium-sized companies and sole proprietors who have received the cooperation money for shortening business hours in the past and apply for it using the sales amount method, applications will be accepted during the request period and a certain amount will be paid early (in this case, a separate application will be required after the request period).
Application Method
Apply by postal mail or on a dedicated website.
Application Period
Accepting applications will be started after the declaration of the state of emergency is lifted. (Scheduled for mid-September)
Application Documents (Plan)
Application for Early Payment
Please check the following website of the prefecture.
Full Application
- Application Form, Written Oath
- Copy of Bankbook for bank transfer
- Copy of Applicant’s Identification Document (Zairyu Card, or etc.)
- Copy of “Eigyo Kyoka Sho (Operating license) for the restaurant based on Food Sanitation Act. (Valid for the period covered)
- Photos, etc. that show the exterior of the store including the store name
- Photos, etc. that are showing the interior of the store and the infection prevention measures being taken
- Evidence to show that your restaurant shortened the business hours (or closed all day) for the entire requested period. (Photo of a poster, etc.)
- A copy of the income tax return for business year 2020 or 2019
- A copy of the sales ledger, etc., in which sales in the restaurant business are recorded
【Supplementation】 Copy of the Income tax return, etc.
Of the above application documents, please submit a copy of your income tax return and a copy of your sales ledger if you are applying for an amount other than the lower limit of the sales amount method.
Details are as follows.
(1)Copy of Income Tax Return
Corporation (Mandatory)
- A copy of Appendix 1 of the corporate tax return,
- The statement of corporate business summary (both side)
Individual (Mandatory)
- A copy of the first table of the income tax return (Blue return, White return)
- A copy of the blue return statement (1st page and 2nd page) (if it is the blue return.)
(2)A copy of the sales ledger, etc., in which sales in the restaurant business are recorded (of which the year and month used to calculate the cooperation money)
Sales ledger in August 2020 or 2019
※Sales ledger in 2021 is also required if you take the sales decrease method.
Inquiries
Kennai Kigyo One-Stop Center (in Sangyo-Seisaku-ka (Industrial Policy Division), Prefectural Office)
Phone: 027-226-2731