With entry in the low-interest era, investors' interest in real estate business is being gradually increased as an investment means for continuously producing profits while collecting profits higher than bank interests. Due to procedural simplicity, e...
With entry in the low-interest era, investors' interest in real estate business is being gradually increased as an investment means for continuously producing profits while collecting profits higher than bank interests. Due to procedural simplicity, etc. in the early stages of business in carrying out the real estate lease business, the cases are also being gradually increased where corporate conversion is reviewed for tax reasons after founding as an individual business.
Corporate conversion is reviewed for the purpose of reducing tax burden upon inheritance and gift to sons and daughters when the real estate prices are high or for the purpose of reducing the burden of income tax upon retaining when high incomes are produced from leasing the real estate, or for the purpose of reducing transfer incomes when transfer gains of the real estate are large. This is because the taxation system and the tax burden are different between individual businesses and corporate businesses as the current tax law divides the organization form into two types of individual and corporate. Thus, in the present study, tax burdens of individual and corporate were compared and tax effects were considered upon corporate conversion for the purpose of tax strategy in the business type of real estate leasing. Reviewed were the cases of transfer of wealth to children's generation through excess dividends, and restoration of corporate surplus through capital reduction by cash payment and stock repurchase as the tax plans upon inheritance and gift, and upon retaining, together with the tax plans upon transfer and the utilizable tax plans after corporate conversion. Through the case study, corporate conversion was not identified to always bring favorable results in the tax burden, and considerations were given as to what factors had important effects. In the case of carrying real estate leasing businesses for a long term, the tax strategy through corporate conversion can be effective for a considerable portion, and the tax plans utilizing diversified strategies were also available even after corporate conversion. This uses the differences in tax accounting between individual and corporate along with the assessment method for unlisted stocks. Hence, loopholes in the tax law for assessment method of the unlisted stocks need to be supplemented through amendment of the tax laws. Also, since the tax efficiency is dropped by the occurrence of differences in the tax burden as a result of variation in organization forms although there is no practical difference according to individual or corporate due to the characteristics of real estate leasing business, application of taxation for the small-scale businesses (taxation institution for S corporate) or special cases of taxation for the partnership businesses in US was proposed. The significance of the present article is in presenting efficient measures from the standpoint of taxation authorities while presenting measures to the taxpayers anguishing over corporate conversion of real estate leasing businesses.
* Keyword: Corporate conversion, real estate leasing business, tax plan