Sejong, Reduction of Road Occupancy Fees for Local Small Business Owners

[Asia Economy (Sejong) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Sejong City will reduce road occupancy fees for local small business owners.

The city announced on the 8th that, following government policy, it will reduce 25% of this year's regular road occupancy fees. The reduction applies to all private business operators and individuals in the region, excluding public institutions and local public enterprises.

The reduction will be applied by reissuing the reduced amount within this month for those who have not yet paid this year's road occupancy fees, and for those who have already paid, the amount will be uniformly reduced and charged next year.

The city explained that the uniform reduction and charging next year is a measure to prevent excessive administrative effort caused by refund procedures, avoid inconvenience from refund requests by complainants, and reduce face-to-face contact.

The city expects that this reduction measure will ease the burden of road occupancy fees by approximately 480 million KRW. This year's assessed road occupancy fees amount to 1,475 cases totaling 2.67 billion KRW.

The reduction of road occupancy fees in charge of the respective eup and dong will be individually carried out in Jochiwon-eup and Areum-dong.

Woo Jeong-hoon, head of the city's Road Division, said, “The reduction of road occupancy fees is implemented to help small business owners affected by the COVID-19 pandemic,” and added, “We hope this measure will provide some support to small business owners and ordinary citizens.”

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