What is the stem of Korean tax payment?

You have to pay taxes if you don't get married? "This seemingly strange worry is getting worse in South Korea. Under heavy pressure, the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Korea had to come out to refute the rumor, saying that "there is no such thing" and that this was just a "joke" against the low birth rate in Korea.

This concern comes from the speech of senior officials of the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Korea on June 5438+0/KLOC-0. He told the media that South Korea may have to levy a "single tax" in the next few years, because the budget of the South Korean government is insufficient now, and it is difficult to solve the problem of low fertility rate in South Korea only by government finance. The official said that the birth rate in South Korea last year was only1.65,438+0.87, which was the lowest among OECD countries. In order to solve this problem, it is not excluded to levy a "single tax" in the future. After the speech was made public by the media, it quickly caused an uproar on the Korean network. Although the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Korea came out to refute rumors, netizens still criticized the senior officials of this department for not making such jokes. If the "single tax" is really levied, then adults over a certain age who are unmarried or have no children after marriage will become the target of taxation.

South Korea's SBS TV 12 reported that the so-called "single tax" is not the first time. In 2005, LG Economic Research Institute put forward the "plan to overcome the low birth rate", and said that South Korea should learn from the practice of collecting "single tax" in Roman times to increase the birth rate, and legal workers who are unmarried at a certain age should pay additional tax. Last year, one of the topics of the academic conference organized by the Korea Population Health and Welfare Association was how to levy the "single tax". South Korea's National Daily 12 reported that if you don't fall in love, you have to pay taxes? The Ministry of Welfare and Health blamed this statement on a "slip of the tongue" or caused a lot of spit. A spokesman for the Justice Party, the opposition party in South Korea, commented on the same day that what the South Korean government should do now is not to consider how to levy a single tax, but to think about why young people are unwilling and unable to fall in love or get married.

The rumor of "single tax" has caused such controversy in South Korea, which is not unrelated to the recent tax increase measures. It is reported that the recent tax increase measures proposed by the South Korean government have caused considerable shock in South Korea. After increasing the price of cigarettes by 1 times on the basis of 1 next year, the Korean government is also preparing to substantially increase the corporate tax.