수증재산에 대한 소득과세 우선의 원칙의 문제점

Under the current legal tax framework, more often than not, gift property is subject to taxable income and also falls into the category of the gift tax. In this case, there is a conflict over the interpretation of it: whether the income tax should be imposed on gift property, to levy the gift tax, or to levy both the income tax and the gift tax. According to Article 2, Item 2 of the inheritance tax and gift tax, when a recipient of gift property is levied with the income tax, it specifies that the gift tax will not be imposed, indicating the priority principle of income taxation on gift property. It is correct to adopt the gift tax priority principle for gift property, if we are to select a taxation scheme that imposes taxes under the tax category of the gift tax, which is separate from the income tax. If we select a taxation scheme to impose taxes on gift property under the discrete category of the gift tax and adopt the priority principle of income taxation of gift property, it deviates from the original intention to implement the gift tax scheme. There is no need to keep the gift tax only to maintain the current priority principle of income taxation of gift property. Therefore, it is necessary to delete Article 2, Item 2 of the inheritance tax and gift tax that specifies the priority principle of income taxation of gift property. If one has a specific property that is fitting to be subjected, not to the gift tax, but to the income tax, however, it can be imposed by the income tax with additional regulation covering specific cases.