A transmitting apparatus and a wireless communication method are provided. The transmitting apparatus is capable of transmitting, together with transmission data, retransmission data in response to an HARQ from a receiving apparatus, according to an MCS determined based on a request from the receiving apparatus and includes a storage portion which stores information indicating a transition of an FER with respect to a communication quality for each MCS in both cases in which an HARQ response is enabled and disabled, an HARQ switching portion which switches whether to enable or disable the HARQ response in accordance with a QoS class of data to be transmitted, and an MCS switching portion which switches an MCS in accordance with the switching of whether to enable or disable the HARQ response, while referring to the information stored in the storage portion.