Main idea of this study go to the recent issue of real estate taxation reform. The government has newly created the 'Aggregated real estate tax'. The current Aggregated real estate tax is a national tax levied on properties such as land and buildings....
Main idea of this study go to the recent issue of real estate taxation reform. The government has newly created the 'Aggregated real estate tax'. The current Aggregated real estate tax is a national tax levied on properties such as land and buildings.
The aggregated real estate tax was discussed in a concrete manner for introduction by Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs on September 1. 2003, and became reality with enactment of the aggregated real estate tax on January 5, 2005. There are many discussion on the feasibility or effectiveness on the introduction.
Since the percentage of property tax is lower while that exchange tax is ridiclously high in Korea, the introduction seems to be positive so as to stabilize the price of real estate. Therfore, the aggregated real estate tax holds legitimacy as a system in that tax burden on property held was not adquate in its two precedent and that attempts to adjust the system was made to rationalize it.
However, despite the ligitimacy, the current aggregated real estate tax has many problem as the government excessively resorted to the tax system as one of the policy measures for stabilizing the real estate market.
In this study, I survey problems of the aggregated real estate tax, such as (a) whether or not it is appropriate to make the aggregated real estate tax a national tax (b) breached principles of equality of tax burden and guarantee of property right (c) double taxation (d) unconconstitutional elements (e) appropriateness of cut-off price (f) taxable objects & tax unit.