Suwon Designates 7 Additional Return Gift Suppliers for 2024 Hometown Love Donation Program

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Jung Jun-sung] Suwon Special City held a '2024 Suwon Hometown Love Donation Return Gift Selection Committee' meeting at the City Hall situation room on the 22nd and additionally selected 7 companies as return gift suppliers.

The selected companies are △Dallae-ri (cordial·handmade dried vegetables) △㈜Ilgong-ilO Company (traditional pastry·cake set·one-day class) △Jangssibobusang Cooperative (orange drink·nuts set) △Picnic Day (picnic set) △㈜Doreure Art Factory (Jeongjo's Royal Procession tea cup making, etc.) △Baba&You; (natural kitchen soap, etc.) △㈜Human Cons (wooden cutting board·stamp, etc.).

The city publicly recruited suppliers to provide return gifts to donors of the Hometown Love Donation Program in March, and selected 7 companies through deliberation considering supplier public interest, local connectivity, company credibility, operation and distribution management, identity, excellence, marketability, and implementation capability.

The city signed an agreement with the selected return gift suppliers on this day. With the additional selection of suppliers, new return gifts totaling 20 items will be provided to those who donate to Suwon through the Hometown Love Donation Program. The return gift suppliers will be announced on the Suwon City website (https://www.suwon.go.kr).

The Hometown Love Donation Program is a system that provides tax deduction benefits to donors at a certain rate when people living away from home donate to their hometown or other local governments, and the recipient local government can provide return gifts within 30% of the donation amount. Last year, Suwon raised 324.24 million won through the Hometown Love Donation Program and provided 2,812 return gifts.

Donations are not limited to one's hometown. All citizens of local governments except Suwon residents can donate to Suwon, and Suwon residents can donate to all basic and metropolitan local governments nationwide except Suwon and Gyeonggi Province. Donations can be made through online (Hometown Love e-um system) or NH Nonghyup Bank reception counters.

Donations of 100,000 won or less receive 100% tax deduction, and those exceeding 100,000 won receive 16.5% tax deduction, so donating 100,000 won can provide benefits worth 130,000 won (tax deduction 100,000 won, return gift 30,000 won).

A city official said, "We hope that the selection of return gift suppliers will help invigorate the local economy," and "We hope that the return gifts will serve as an opportunity to promote Suwon throughout the nation."