This study attempted to investigate what effect the Korean real estate tax system has exerted on the real estate market and to present the policy task as well as the improvement scheme concerning the problem of the current acquisition and registration...
This study attempted to investigate what effect the Korean real estate tax system has exerted on the real estate market and to present the policy task as well as the improvement scheme concerning the problem of the current acquisition and registration taxes and transfer income taxes.
The real estate tax system has a limit in stabilizing the real estate market and improving all the problems, but real transaction has come to realize the lowering of the transactional tax rate and the reinforcement of the real estate ownership taxes with the actualization of taxation. But it has failed to make a great change in the effective tax rate, thereby almost failing to resolve the fundamental problem inherent in the transactional tax.
Accordingly, it is necessary to examine the diverse shocks influencing local finance as well as the effect of the easing of tax burden on the real estate market sufficiently, thereby raising the rate of actualizing the standard of assessment in a direction of improving the problems existing in the tax system and tax administration related to real estate, alleviating transactional taxation and realizing the policy of reinforcing taxation on possession of real estate.
And government has reinforced transfer income tax in an attempt to stabilize the market by redeeming speculation interests whenever the real estate market has been unstable. Rather, the lock-in effect has occurred and the side effect of distorting the real estate market has occurred. And there is a possibility of distorting the real estate market and generating side effects such as the shrinkage of consumption and the depression of the internal demand market due to the rapidly increased burden of taxes. Accordingly, tax policy should be implemented that is to realize tax equity and fairness, curb the mentality of possessing unnecessary real estate, stabilize the real estate price and attempt the balanced development of local finance and the sound development of national economy. And the transfer income tax system should be excessively used as the means for curbing real estate speculation and stabilizing the market for the original purpose of tax that is to secure the redistribution of wealth and financial revenues through equitable taxation. It should be improved so that tax justice may be realized and the taxpayers' rights may be protected by restoring equitable taxation damaged for the years.
The nontaxation system has the problem of its uniform application when given requirements are met without taking into consideration the individual's property state and ability to pay tax. So this study presented the "tax credit system" as the improvement scheme. And it was proposed that there is a need to abolish the special deduction on long-term possession of real estate and introduce "inflation deduction" and the "taxation system based on the annual tax multiplied years method " as the improvement scheme of taxation unequality between transfer income tax and composite income tax. In conclusion, the direction of the tax policy for transactional taxes such as acquisition tax and registration tax and the transfer income tax system to advance is to provide the rights and interests of the taxpayer by realizing the burden of tax equity and tax justice.