{"id":834860,"date":"2026-07-31T04:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834860\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T04:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:03:10","slug":"tax-revenue-up-3-85-bil-in-june-on-higher-incomes-property-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834860\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax revenue up $3.85 bil. in June on higher incomes, property market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/879cbe6a-77b6-43cb-9ccd-e6a1695dfb58.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1036; width: 100%\" alt=\"Apartment buildings are seen in Seoul from Namsan, July 19. Yonhap\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Apartment buildings are seen in Seoul from Namsan, July 19. Yonhap<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Korea&#8217;s tax revenue rose by 5.5 trillion won ($3.85 billion) in June from a year earlier on higher incomes and an increase in the number of homes traded, data showed Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The government collected 23.1 trillion won in taxes last month, up 31.1 percent from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Finance and Economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The finance ministry attributed the increase to higher income tax collections, which totaled 8.9 trillion won in June, up 1.4 trillion won from a year earlier, reflecting wage hikes and an increase in the number of homes traded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The total number of homes traded in the country came to 69,800 in April, up 6.6 percent from 65,400 a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Korea also collected 2.7 trillion won in corporate taxes, up 400 billion won from a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Revenue from the securities transaction tax rose 1.2 trillion won from a year earlier to 1.4 trillion won.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">For the January-June period, tax revenue came to 223 trillion won, up 17.4 percent, or 33 trillion won, from a year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apartment buildings are seen in Seoul from Namsan, July 19. Yonhap Korea&#8217;s tax revenue rose by 5.5 trillion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-834860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}