(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Hae-young = "Is golf a sport for the common people or is it entertainment for the rich?"
The long-standing debate in Japanese society is being replayed ahead of the next year's tax reform plan, which is being pursued by the ruling party. Controversy over whether the golf course use tax exists.
Organizations related to the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Education, and Science, which have long demanded the abolition, are claiming tax cuts first because golf was adopted as the official event of the Tokyo Olympics next year. On the other hand, local governments and coalition parties, the Ming Dynasty Party, are opposed to maintaining the current tax system.
This is a long-standing debate, but this year is a bit different. Unlike the previous year, when the Ministry of Education, Sports and Science, which had been making progress as a result of the adoption of golf as a regular sport at the next Olympics, demanded abolition, this year, it is adopting a realistic strategy that requires tax cuts such as expanding the tax-free age group.
According to Asahi Shimbun, a golf course tax is imposed on golfers aged 18-69 for up to 1,200 yen per day. Ministry of Education, Ministry of Education, Sports, Sports, Science and Technology has been demanding the abolition of golf course tax every year since 2000, but it has not been realized.
In the current system, taxes are imposed on Olympic events. Former vice chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party, Eto Seishiro, the chairman of the Confederation of Parliamentarians, said, "It is a national figure to pay taxes to sports."
At the Liberal Democratic Party's meeting on the 30th of last month, petitions of golf-related organizations were distributed with the statistics that more than 50% of golfers earn less than 5 million yen of annual income. The reason why it is called 'common sports' is that golf is regarded as 'rich entertainment' because of the history of taxation.
Golf was treated like Pachinko and Mahjong and imposed an 'use facility tax', but the consumption tax was abolished when the consumption tax was introduced in 1989, but golf only continues to be renamed the use of golf course tax. Now it is a valuable resource for local governments. In 2017, only the money collected by this tax amounted to 44.7 billion yen.
Local governments concerned about tax revenues are, of course, fiercely opposed to abolition or tax cuts. The national governing body is in a position that it cannot accept the abolition or reduction of the (golf course use tax). In September, the governor filed a petition with the head of the ruling party's tax institute to insist on "keeping golf course taxes."
Resonance Party is also passive for tax cuts or abolition. "It's hard to say that it's a common people's sport based on the annual income level," said Makoto Nishida. "It's not common to cut money without alternatives," he said.
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