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SEOUL, May 1 Asia Pulse - South Korea plans to cut corporate tax next month to help spur economic growth, a senior government official said Thursday, as the global slowdown puts the brakes on Asia's fourth-largest economy.
"Following oil tax cuts, the government plans to improve conditions for private investment by cutting the corporate tax rate in June," Vice Finance Minister Choi Joong-kyung told SBS radio earlier in the day.
South Korea is expected to cut the maximum corporate tax rate to 22 per cent from 25 per cent.
On Monday, the finance ministry admitted that the economy was already entering a "downward phase" and said it will take measures to adjust the pace of the downturn.
The Bank of Korea said last week the economy accelerated a meager 0.7 per cent from the quarter before in the first-quarter of 2008, citing weakening consumption amid the rising ...