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Amid the controversy over the comprehensive real estate tax, 1.22 million people who received bills yesterday started paying. House prices are falling, but taxes are set high, so the tax office is said to have complained, ‘Should I sell my house and pay taxes?’, as well as complaints and visits.
Reporter Jeong Su-yang visited the scene.
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A comprehensive real estate tax window from a tax office in Seoul. Inquiries from taxpayers who have received comprehensive real estate tax bills are flooding in.
“Where is the tax of 6 million won on a bill of 2 million won?”
Clay remains everywhere.
“It’s too unfair. Should I write a petition to the president?”
Mr. Kim, who joined the house with his younger brother this year and was classified as 1-family 2 houses and had to pay the comprehensive real estate tax, is at a loss.
Persons subject to comprehensive real estate tax payment
“I’m over 70, but I have to have an income. I’m living with what I’ve earned so far, but (my younger brother) said I couldn’t live, so it would be I prefer to migrate…”
He has a tantrum about having to sell his house to pay taxes.
Shim Chang-hyeon / Gangnam-gu, Seoul
“I bought something like a flat when I was young, but I have to sell it eventually. I can’t afford it.”
House prices have fallen, but there are also complaints about why the tax is so high.
Persons subject to comprehensive real estate tax payment
“The price of the house was raised unreasonably at the end of the Moon Jae-in administration. We have to hold it…”
You have to pay more tax than last yearAround 470,000 people pay tax, which accounts for 38% of all taxpayers.
This is because the public price that determines the payment standard for final real estate tax has risen.
Even the government has presented a bill to amend the Comprehensive Real Estate Tax Act to the National Assembly to raise the standard of the tax, but the discussion in the National Assembly has been sluggish.
Hong Joon-pyo, the mayor of Daegu, said he has filed a lawsuit against the comprehensive real estate tax, saying, “The comprehensive real estate tax is looting.”
This is TV Chosun’s Jung Soo-yang.
