This study proposes desirable real property tax scheme and political solutions in order to solve the current problems of real property tax system in Korea. For this purpose, I analyzed the change of real property policy and the real property tax syste...
This study proposes desirable real property tax scheme and political solutions in order to solve the current problems of real property tax system in Korea. For this purpose, I analyzed the change of real property policy and the real property tax system. And then, I considered what was the impact of real property policies such as real property taxes to the real property market stability.
Although real property policy is one of the important economic policies and is closely related with everyday life, tax-oriented real property policies can distort and bring harmful effects to the real property market. Therefore, when we make and enforce real property policies, we should take into consideration social and economic situations. And those policies should be made on a long-term basis as well.
There were a lot of problems in our real property policies. First, the frequent changes of policy and tax scheme have brought the lack of confidence in the real property policies and have distorted real property market. Second, the real estate tax ignores efficiency, social equality, and decentralization. In addition, there are other problems in capital gains tax such as narrowness of taxpayer scope, unequality of tax-free system for the person who have one house, reconciliation of tax rate in accordance with tax imposition based on true transaction price.
The transparency and activation of real property transactions are essential to stabilize the real property market, and the function of tax policy must be limited to protect those subjects. Therefore, tax policy must be changed to improve transparency and activation of real property transactions from now on. In addition, with respect to acquisition tax, real estate tax, and capital gains tax, we should take into account reconciliation of tax rate in accordance with tax imposition based on true transaction price, efficiency, social equality, and decentralization.
In order to prevent the policy failure, our government should throw away the way of thinking that stabilizing real property market can be accomplished by using real property tax system. That is to say, although tax policy can bring a short term effect, it can also bring a side effect such as distorting the market.
In general, if the policy makers fail to achieve their policy goal by one policy, they execute another policy and this aggravate the situations. So, when the government introduce new policy, the policy makers should be careful and should prepare elaborate plans.