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who owns a house and whose price does not exceed 1.2 billion won does not pay transfer tax even if the house is sold the day after (8th). The bill with these contents was originally scheduled to go into effect next month, but as more people were waiting for it to sell their houses, the government decided to move up the implementation date.



Correspondent Han Sang-woo.



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Over the past weekend, the real estate agent's office was flooded with calls about transfer tax.



In the case of one homeowner per household, the content of the request was to tell exactly when the standard for exempting transfer tax would increase from the current 900 million won to 1.2 billion won.



[Jaewoo Koo / Realtor: Sellers are worried a lot, so inquiries continue to come in now as to whether it is possible to delay the balance a little. It's a situation that hasn't been terrified yet... .]



Closing the contract after the new law takes effect will significantly reduce the transfer tax.



In fact, if a single homeowner who bought an apartment for 700 million won five years ago and lived there sells an apartment for 1.2 billion won, now he has to pay a transfer tax of 13.4 million won.



So, as people continued to sell their houses after the law came into force, the government decided to move up the enforcement date.



It is said that they are considering a plan to be decided at the cabinet meeting tomorrow and implemented at the same time as the promulgation the day after tomorrow.



[Kim Gyu-gyu/Director of Asset Succession Research Institute, Korea Investment & Securities Co., Ltd.: The number of consumers who want to postpone the contract at all is increasing, so the transaction cliff is spreading.

In order to prevent confusion in the trading market, the promulgation date has been



moved

forward a little and it can be seen that it will be implemented immediately.] The

transfer tax is based on the earlier of the balance payment date and transfer registration completion date. This will be



If the law goes into effect as scheduled, the first homeowner who received the balance from the day after tomorrow may be subject to the changed law.



(Video editing: Lee Seung-yeol, VJ: Park Hyun-woo)