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multinational corporations are making sales around the world, the US has proposed a corporate tax reform plan to the international community.

It sets the minimum limit for corporate tax rates, and the company pays taxes to the countries where actual sales are generated.

Several countries, including Korea, showed a sympathetic position.



Reporter Daeun Jung reported on how it will affect our economy and businesses. 



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plan for corporate tax reform proposed by the United States.



The first is that the top 100 multinational corporations pay taxes to the countries where their sales are generated.



There have been criticisms like this, criticism has been that IT giants pay enormously less tax compared to the money they earn by making huge sums of money only through online businesses without a fixed business establishment. This is to fix this.



The second method is to set the lowest corporate tax rate that is used worldwide.



For example, if the global minimum tax rate is set at 21%, companies that paid their taxes in a country with a corporate tax rate of 15% would have to pay the remaining tax less to their home country.



It is interpreted that US President Biden is trying to raise funds for infrastructure investment worth 2,500 trillion won through these increases, and Korean companies can also fall into the sphere of influence.



If you pay taxes to the countries that generate sales, foreign investment companies with a lot of foreign sales will pay more taxes to foreign governments, and our tax revenue will decrease.



[Gimhaksu / KDI Public Economics Research Fellow: If non-digital businesses, the existing OECD policies to weaken tax the consumer business imposed irrespective of the sector in the United States suggest (we) have tax burdens of enterprises also increased -



just tax the lowest As for the tax rate, the corporate tax rate has already reached a maximum of 27.5%, so even if it is introduced, it is not expected to have much effect.



[Seong Tae-yoon/Yonsei University Professor of Economics: Korea has already reached a certain level of internationally high corporate tax, so it cannot be seen as a direct damage...

.] While



the final draft is scheduled to be announced at the G20 Finance Ministers' meeting in July, the government said that it has not yet come up with specific countermeasures because it is difficult to clearly diagnose the impact of domestic companies.



However, in order to minimize the burden on domestic companies, we plan to carefully review the anticipated situations.



(Video editing: Park Jin-hoon)