Asian Tax Journal

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Legislation Lack and Improvement on the Registration and License Tax for Corporate Registration

  • Ki-Yong Hong School of Business Administration, Incheon National University

Asian Tax Journal Vol. 20 No. 1 (2019), pp. 169-188

Abstract

Since the Registration and License Tax for Corporate Registration does not explicitly state the "Local Tax Act", there is a problem with the legislation lack. Current the tax rates of the Registration and License Tax for Corporate Registration is ”4/1000 of the paid amount of stocks, the amount of investment, or the value of investment other than cash (112,500Won when an amount of tax is less than 112,500Won)“. However, thhe "heavy taxation tax rates" are also being used for the policy registration in metropolitan cities such as Seoul. In this case, the ”heavy taxation tax rates“ is ”300/100 of the relevant tax rate(if the tax amount calculated by applying the tax rate specified is less than 112,500 won, it shall be deemed 112,500 won)“. Here, the issue is that the new tax rates(112,500Won)was defined, but the corresponding tax bases were not newly defined as “per case”. Accordingly, the Regisration and License Tax for Corporate Registration, which the government has imposed so far, is problematic. This problem can be a social problem later on, because the "paid amount of stocks" will occur to small businessmen under 28,125,000won. For this improvements, First, “112,500Won when an amount of tax is less than 112,500Won” should be changed to “112,500Won per case when an amount of tax is less than 112,500Won”. "Per case" should be added. Secondly, the rule '112,500Won when an amount of tax is less than 112,500Won' can be regarded as the 'minimum amount of tax'. These regulations are laid out in the "tax rates article", which need to be legislated later with separate articles. This paper is the first academic study on the legislative lack of "registration and License Tax for Corporate Registration". In this respect, this paper contributes greatly to academic discipline.

Keywords

  • Registration and License Tax
  • Corporate Registration
  • Tax
  • Taxation
  • Tax Law

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