Disclosure of the ‘malicious lessor’, the bill passed by the National Land Commission
“There is a high possibility that it will be passed at the plenary session on the 24th of this month at the earliest.”
A bill to disclose the identity of malicious landlords who habitually do not return deposits for jeonse has passed the Legislative Review Subcommittee of the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee of the National Assembly.
The National Land Commission Legislative Review Subcommittee announced on the 14th that it had amended and passed an alternative to the amendment to the Housing and Urban Fund Act, which contains the legal basis for disclosing the list of malicious landlords.
The ‘malicious lessor’ subject to personal information disclosure is ▲ not repaying the rental deposit of 200 million won or more in total, so the Housing and Urban Guarantee Corporation (HUG) pays for it, or ▲ two or more cases of rental deposit return within 3 years from the date of indemnity. a person who has not complied with
The information disclosed is related to the lessor’s name, age, address, rental deposit return obligations, and indemnity obligations.
If the requirements for disclosure of the list are met, a certain period of time is set to give the party an opportunity to explain, and the ‘Landlord Information Disclosure Deliberation Committee’ makes a final decision on whether to disclose.
However, if the landlord has died or a civil lawsuit has been filed regarding the indemnity, the name will not be disclosed.
This is a device to prevent landlords who have failed to return the deposit due to economic difficulties without intention or gross negligence from being harmed by the disclosure of the list.
It is highly likely that the bill to disclose the list of malicious landlords will be passed at the plenary session on the 24th of this month at the earliest following the full meeting of the National Land Commission on the 15th.
If the bill passes the plenary session, the list will be released through the ‘safe charter app’ launched by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. This will open the way to filter malicious lessors.
On this day, the Subcommittee on Legislation of the Land and Infrastructure Committee required the submission of a tax payment certificate for national and local taxes when registering as a rental business. In addition, an alternative bill was passed to amend the Special Act on Private Rental Housing, which includes the cancellation of registration if a rental business defaults on a certain amount of tax.
On the other hand, the current law does not have a procedure to check whether tax is in arrears during the rental business registration process. Accordingly, it has been pointed out that improvement is needed as there is no basis for canceling the registration even if the registered rental business fails to pay a large amount of tax.
Reporter Kim Se-rin, Hankyung.com [email protected]
