Suncheon-si, 30% Reduction in Traffic Inducement Charges Again This Year

Temporary Relief Measures to Alleviate Burdens on Small Business Owners and Self-Employed Due to Prolonged COVID-19 Pandemic

[Suncheon=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] Suncheon City, Jeollanam-do (Mayor Heo Seok) announced on the 12th that it will temporarily reduce the transportation demand management charge by 30% this year as well, to stabilize the management of small business owners and self-employed people who are suffering from reduced consumption activities due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic.

The transportation demand management charge is an economic burden imposed on owners of facilities with a total floor area of 1,000㎡ or more that cause congestion within urban traffic management areas, according to the Urban Traffic Readjustment Promotion Act, and is used as funding necessary for improving the traffic environment.

Local governments have prepared the imposition criteria from August 1 of last year to July 31 of this year and will impose the charge in October.

The city is designated as an urban traffic management area with a population of over 100,000, and annually imposes and collects the transportation demand management charge to reduce traffic congestion and uses it for expanding safety facilities to prevent accidents, improving traffic systems, and activities to prevent accidents involving vulnerable traffic groups.

Until last year, the charge was imposed only in the dong (urban) areas, but due to the expansion of the urban scale, it is scheduled to be imposed in eup and myeon (town and township) areas starting this year.

A city official said, “We hope that this 30% reduction in the transportation demand management charge will be of some help to small business owners and self-employed people who are struggling due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic.”

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