On August 12, 2020, a "heavy taxation system for housing acquisition" was
established (Article 13-2 of the Act) to impose heavy taxation when acquiring
housing for corporations and multi-homeowners. According to the relevant
regulation, in the case of...
On August 12, 2020, a "heavy taxation system for housing acquisition" was
established (Article 13-2 of the Act) to impose heavy taxation when acquiring
housing for corporations and multi-homeowners. According to the relevant
regulation, in the case of a corporation or a multi-homeowner, the maximum
amount of 12% is imposed according to the number of houses. In the case of
non-regulated areas, only 3% is imposed according to the value to prevent
excessive contraction of the local housing market. However, in the case of
housing acquired by a corporation, the maximum tax rate of 12% is imposed
irrespective of the number of houses, which protects the actual owner and
prevents property speculation for housing. In addition, in grasping whether a
subject is a multi-homeowner or not, the regulation secures its effectiveness by
imposing the tax not only to multi-homeowners who own houses or apartments
but only to purchase right or officetel (dual-purposed building for commercial
and residential purpose).
In the meantime, there have been few cases where local tax revisions have
been included in the tax reform related to measures in real estate. The housing
acquisition heavy taxation system introduced last year was revised to curb
speculative demand for property by imposing unprecedentedly heavy tax rates to
taxpayers from the acquisition stage, not the sale or holding stage. With the
introduction of an unprecedented level of housing acquisition tax, it is necessary
to continuously research and improve the tax system for multi-homeowners in
the future.
This study examines previous studies and literature on acquisition tax and
multi-homeowners, conducts an empirical study on multi-homeowners' awareness
of the heavy taxation, and summarizes the results as follows.
First, as a result of analyzing general matters on the part of respondents, the
proportion of multi-homeowners was high in the order of 40s and 30s, and the
proportion of multi-homeowners owning 2 houses was overwhelmingly high.
Second, in multi-homeowners’ pros and cons about the imposition of heavy tax
on multi-homeowners, the proportion of multi-homeowners who express ‘opposed’
and ‘very opposed’ was high. 15.1 percent (47 people), 26.4 percent (82 people)
answered 'very favorable', 26.0 percent (81 people) answered 'opposition', and
23.2 percent (72 people) answered 'very opposed'. As for the main reason for
opposing the heavy tax, ‘because the nature of the tax is a penalty for the
multi-homeowner rather than the tax’ and ‘because the heavy taxation for the
multi-homeowners breaches tax equity’ are checked by the respondents, whereby
we can understand that there are a variety of voices from multi-homeowners.
Third, 40.2 percent (125 people) of multi-homeowners who intend to buy a
house were surveyed with a large proportion due to the current heavy
acquisition tax rate. This means that the imposition of heavy tax on
multi-homeowners affects the purchase of the house. Purchasing houses despite
the heavy taxation implies that one purchases houses in consideration of the
complex situation and factors as well as the acquisition tax.
Therefore, this study tried to make multi-homeowners express their awareness
about the purchase in accordance to the change of acquisition tax through
various questionnaires. It is said that the results of the questionnaire on the
imposition of heavy housing acquisition tax are compatible with the approval and
the opposite side, which means that heavy taxation is a big issue among
multi-homeowners. Considering that there are so many types of housing
acquisition according to the ways of acquisition and the composition of
households that policies related to housing among many property-related policies
are likely to be exposed to various influences. So, further research seems to be
needed.