Company: TAK
Filing Date: 2025-06-25
Form Type: F-3ASR
Source: 0001395064-25-000097
Chunk: 14

Company: TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD
Filing Date: 2025-06-25
Form: F-3ASR
Chunk 14
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 Japan, or any authority thereof or therein having power to tax, if the relevant beneficial owner is (a) an individual non-resident of Japan or a non-Japanese corporation (other than a specially-related person of TPC) or (b) a Japanese financial institution or a Japanese financial instruments business operator (each, a “Designated Financial Institution”) falling under certain categories prescribed by the Act on Special Taxation Measures, all in accordance with the Act on Special Taxation Measures, such beneficial owner must, at the time of entrusting a Participant with the custody of the relevant senior debt securities, provide certain information prescribed by the Act on Special Taxation Measures (“Interest Recipient Information”) to enable the Participant to establish that such beneficial owner is exempted from the requirement for taxes to be withheld or deducted, and advise the Participant if the beneficial owner ceases to be so exempted (including the case where a beneficial owner that is an individual non-resident of Japan or a non-Japanese corporation becomes a specially-related person of TPC).

Where senior debt securities issued by TPC are not held by a Participant, in order to receive payments free of withholding or deduction by TPC for or on account of any present or future taxes, duties, assessments or governmental charges of whatever nature imposed or levied by or on behalf of Japan, or any authority thereof or therein having power to tax, if the relevant beneficial owner is (a) an individual non-resident of Japan or a non-Japanese corporation (other than a specially-related person of TPC) or (b) a Designated Financial Institution, all in accordance with the Act on Special Taxation Measures, such beneficial owner must, prior to each time at which it receives interest, submit to the relevant paying agent a written application for tax exemption ( hikazei tekiyo shinkokusho ) (a “Written Application for Tax Exemption”) in a form obtainable from the paying agent stating, inter alia , the name and address of the beneficial owner, the title of the senior debt securities, the relevant interest payment date, the amount of interest and the fact that the beneficial owner is qualified to submit the Written Application for Tax Exemption, together with documentary evidence regarding its identity and residence.

By subscribing for the senior debt securities issued by TPC, an investor will be deemed to have represented that it is a beneficial owner that is, (i) for Japanese tax purposes, neither (a) an individual resident of Japan or a Japanese corporation, nor (b) an