Gyeonggi Province Achieves Record 81% Non-Tax Revenue Collection Rate with 1.2 Trillion Won Collected Last Year

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Park No-hoon] Gyeonggi Province achieved a non-tax revenue collection of 1.2878 trillion won and a collection rate of 81.1% last year.

This marks the first time the collection amount has surpassed 1 trillion won, with both the collection amount and collection rate reaching all-time highs. Carryover delinquent accounts amount to 299.1 billion won, the lowest on record.

Local non-tax revenue refers to self-financed income other than local taxes, such as acquisition tax and registration tax, among local government financial revenues.

This includes income collected from residents for administrative purposes such as usage fees, commissions, administrative fines, and surcharges.

In 2017, the year immediately before Governor Lee Jae-myung took office, the non-tax revenue collection rate was only 69.2 percent, but it has continued to rise since then, reaching a peak last year.

Carryover delinquent accounts decreased by more than 100 billion won, from 405.9 billion won in 2017 to 299.1 billion won last year.

The province evaluated that various delinquent payment policies to achieve fair tax justice and expansion of specialized workforce to support these policies contributed to these results.

Meanwhile, the province has set this year's non-tax revenue collection target at 90 percent of the assessed amount for the current year and 104.7 billion won for carryover delinquent accounts.

To achieve this goal, the province plans to implement various policies including ▲strengthening delinquent payment enforcement activities against high-value and habitual delinquents ▲supporting livelihood-based delinquents and activating write-off processing ▲hosting research presentation conferences on best practices in expanding non-tax revenue and customized consulting by department ▲developing new collection techniques such as detention of administrative fine delinquents, garnishment of apartment sale rights, and national tax refunds.

Kim Min-gyeong, head of the Tax Justice Division at Gyeonggi Province, said, "The importance of non-tax revenue, which is an independent resource that serves as the foundation of local autonomy along with local taxes, is growing day by day," and added, "We will make efforts to create a culture of just tax compliance by appropriately utilizing strong delinquent payment enforcement against high-value delinquents, write-off processing, collection deferral, and installment payment for livelihood-based delinquents."