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government has decided to reduce the monthly income tax from the salaries of office workers.

It varies from person to person depending on how much the monthly salary is, but it can be reduced by up to several hundred thousand won per year.

At the same time, the government has decided to lower the corporate tax and comprehensive real estate tax paid by companies, which is expected to reduce the annual tax by 13 trillion won.

Among the government's tax reform proposals that came out today (21st), let's start with the part of reducing taxes for the common people.



Correspondent Jo Ki-ho.




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government has decided to revise the tax base, which is the standard for deducting tax from employee salaries, for the first time in 15 years.



The government has accepted the criticism that the salaries rise but the standards remain the same, only paying more taxes.



[Chu Kyung-ho / Deputy Prime Minister of Economy: We want to reduce the tax burden on the common people and the middle class.

The overall tax burden is reduced by raising the lower two tax base sections of income tax, but…

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Expanded the taxable section for the low-income class, which has the lowest tax rate at 6%, to 14 million won.



If you receive an annual salary of 30 million won or less and exclude national pension, health insurance, and various deductions, this section is applicable.



The section where 15% is deducted on top of that will also be raised to 50 million won from the current 46 million won.



I commissioned the Korea Economic Research Institute to find out how much tax I would pay if a new tax rate was applied.



Currently, for single-person households with an average annual income of 25 million won, the annual income tax has been reduced from 335,000 won to 328,000 won.



This means that you will receive about 7,000 won in benefits.



The higher the annual salary, the wider the tax cut, so an annual salary of 50 million won is 180,000 won, and from 78 million won, the maximum limit of 540,000 won is lower.



[Lim Dong-won / Member of the Korea Economic Research Institute: For the middle class, (reduction) will be felt to some extent from 180,000 won to 460,000 won, but for the low-income class, it is expected that it will not be significantly felt.



] The limit on company meal tax exemption will be increased from 100,000 won per month to 200,000 won, and work incentives will be increased to a maximum of 3.3 million won based on dual income.



Income deduction plans to deduct up to 3 million won in addition to traditional markets, public transportation, and movies and books.



The government predicted that this would reduce the tax payable by the working class by 2.2 trillion won next year.



(Video coverage: Jeon Gyeong-bae·Kim Min-cheol, Video editing: Lee Seung-yeol, CG: Ryu Sang-soo)



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