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Three years later, starting in 2023, individual investors must pay taxes if they have earned over 20 million won in stock investment. The government emphasized that "it is not an absolute symptom", but the controversy over double taxation remains and there are some backlash from investors.

Reporter Chan-Keun Park reports.

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moment, the capital gains tax, which was paid only by large shareholders with listed stocks of more than 1 billion won, should also be paid by small shareholders from 2023.

The basic deduction is 20 million won, and if you make more profits, you must pay tax.

The tax rate is 20% below the 300 million won margin and 25% is applied to the excess.

Instead, the stock exchange tax, which is now 0.25%, will drop to 0.15% by 2023.

Prior to this, from 2022, tax will be levied on the current non-taxable bond transfer gains and equity gains in the fund.

In the event of loss, you may be deducted over the course of three years.

According to the reorganization plan, the government estimated that about 300,000, the top 5% of the total 6 million stock investors, would pay the capital gains tax on listed stocks.

Although the taxation of capital gains for minority shareholders will increase by 2023 trillion won in 2023, the government has emphasized that it is based on the tax principle of'where there is tax where income is,' but it is not a tax increase.

It is offset by the reduction of securities transaction tax and the sum of profit and loss.

[Kim Yong-beom/Ministry of Strategy and Finance: At the moment, it is tax-neutral, so I will tell you that there is no such tax reform considering the

tax increase .] However, it was still controversial that the taxation of securities trading tax while expanding the tax on stock transfer gains To do.

The government finalizes the final draft through public hearings and financial company briefings next month and submits it to the regular National Assembly in September.