Last year, it was found that more than 3,000 written inquiries about capital gains tax were poured out to the National Tax Service.



This appears to have occurred as the transfer tax system has become so complicated that the word 'yangpo tax (a tax accountant who has given up on transfer tax advice)' is coined due to the government's tightening of regulations.



Today (13th), according to the data received from the National Tax Service by the Office of National Strength Councilor Choo Kyung-ho, who belongs to the Planning and Finance Committee of the National Assembly, there were 3,243 written inquiries about transfer tax from taxpayers last year.



A written inquiry is a method that taxpayers use when they ask the IRS to interpret an ambiguous part of the tax law.



The number of transfer tax inquiries jumped from 1,000 in 2016 (1,040), 2017 (1,56), 2018 (1,779), and 2019 (1,763) to 3,000 last year. went up.



This year, 2,863 cases have already been received by June this year, and it is expected that the number of inquiries received by the end of the year will increase compared to last year.



Compared with other sub-categories, it stands out that there are significantly more written inquiries related to transfer tax.



Last year, there were 679 written inquiries on value-added tax and 441 written inquiries on inheritance and gift taxes.



There were 440 and 415 written inquiries for corporate tax and income tax, respectively, and 208 written inquiries for comprehensive real estate tax.



Last year, the number of responses to 3,243 written inquiries about transfer tax was 147, with a response rate of 4.5%.



This is a slight decrease from 5.3% (94 cases) in 2019.



However, as of June of this year, out of 2,863 inquiries received, 8.1% (231 cases) responded, indicating an increase in the response rate.



The average number of days to reply to written inquiries about transfer tax was 131 days last year, down from 151 days in 2019.



As of June of this year, it was counted down to 57 days.



The maximum number of replies was 643 days last year, the longest since 2016.



As of June of this year, the maximum number of replies was 545 days.



Rep. Choo Kyung-ho criticized, "We need to change the narrow perception of people who own houses as speculators rather than aggravate confusion with the revision of the tax law."



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