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This year’s comprehensive real estate tax payment bill has been sent.
For the first time, the number of people subject to a comprehensive real estate tax exceeded 1 million, which is about 8 out of 100 homeowners.
The government said in an announcement today that the final real estate tax has become a ‘middle class tax’.
Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Won Hee-ryong said he would return the real estate tax burden to the level of at least two years ago.
Reporter Kim Ah-young covered the story.
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The number of people paying comprehensive real estate tax has exceeded 1 million.
Of the 15 million homeowners, comprehensive real estate tax was levied on 1.22 million.
That’s 8 out of every 100 homeowners.
In Seoul, one in four houses has to pay a final real estate tax.
Among the first generation, single home owners, 230,000 people were notified of the final real estate tax, an increase of more than 50% from last year.
This increase in the number of targets is due to the fact that, following a sharp rise in real estate prices last year, the official price has also risen a lot.
In today’s announcement, the government defined the comprehensive real estate tax as a ‘middle class tax’.
Contrary to the original intention of giving it to the rich at the time of its introduction, there is 8% of the homeowners’ charge, so it is seen as a tax on the middle class.
This government’s position clearly shows its intention to reduce the tax burden.
Last year, the government announced that 1.8% of the entire population paid comprehensive real estate taxes.
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“98% of the people have nothing to do with a comprehensive real estate tax. There are exaggerated concerns, but what is clear is that bills are not sent to about 98% of the people.”
However, on the same basis, the number of taxpayers this year, when the government changed, is 2.4% of the entire population.
This time, the government emphasized that it was a tax for the middle class, saying that 8% of homeowners pay comprehensive real estate tax, with the standard being a landlord.
This position of the government is interpreted as a public opinion rally to pass the comprehensive real estate tax reform bill in the National Assembly, which lowers taxes by eliminating the tax rate for multi-homed people, as well as increasing resistance to’ r tax as the real estate market has suddenly frozen this year.
Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Won Hee-ryong announced that he would reduce the real estate tax burden to at least the 2020 level, and that he would lower the ratio of public price to market price next year more than this year.
This is Kim Ah-young from MBC News.
Video editing: Lee Sang-min
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