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A South Korean government fund that reserves tax revenue above a long-run trend, earmarked for future industries, youth, regional, and education spending.
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Korea's parliamentary finance committee says the planned Future Response Fund would let the government fill tax shortfalls without a supplementary budget. Its review says the Assembly would lose its vote before the money moves and get a report after it.
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Gyeonggi Governor Choo Mi-ae wants Korea's planned 162.3 trillion won fund to reinvest its semiconductor tax windfall in the regions that produced it. Her proposals touch three of the fund's four accounts, and the criteria she wants would steer much of that money toward Yongin, Pyeongtaek and Icheon.
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South Korea's government wants authority to move a tax windfall of more than 60 trillion won into a new fund while the Bank of Korea is raising rates. Whether the money repays deficit bonds or feeds fund spending will help decide how far rates have to rise.
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South Gyeongsang Province and its 18 cities and counties estimate the new order of calculation leaves them 3.37 trillion won short of the 2027 increase the current formula would have produced. The fund is budgeted at 162.3 trillion won.
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The Ministry of Planning and Budget's performance plan lists none of the fund's 140 programs, and an analysis for People Power Party lawmaker Park Soo-young counts 21.7 trillion won of its spending as inconsistent with the fund's own purpose.
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The managed fiscal balance deficit is 3.1 trillion won and the planned debt increase is 106 trillion, so next year's bond supply is set by the fund's prefunding rather than by the gap between revenue and spending.
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Next year's local education grant is set at 78.9 trillion won, about 20 trillion below what the old tax-linked rule would have paid, and the freed money now reaches universities through a fund fed by whatever revenue comes in above trend.
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Seoul plans to park above-trend tax revenue in a Future Response Fund for AI and advanced industry, estimated at a minimum of 100 trillion won next year, with 20% reallocation latitude.
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The 20.79% share of domestic taxes goes away after 55 years. Grants will track nominal growth with demographic decline counted at 35%, and the gap flows to a new Future Response Fund.
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Seoul plans to divert tax revenue above its long-term trend into a new state fund, starting with more than 60 trillion won next year. Governance, not size, decides what it becomes.
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The Future Response Fund would bank internal tax revenue above a 6.1 percent trend line, and the education grant's automatic 20.79 percent claim on that revenue looks set to go.
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