고향사랑기부제의 재정확충효과 모의실험 - 충청남도를 사례로 -

Abstract

As the development gap between local governments in South Korea continues to widen, academic and policy sectors are making efforts to reduce the disparity and revitalize under￾developed regions. One of the policy initiatives introduced for this purpose is the “Hometown Love Donation Policy”. However, there is still a lack of in-depth discussions regarding the policy’s effectiveness, particularly in terms of its specific financial expansion impact, which is of great interest to individual local governments. Based on the above, this study conducted a policy simulation of the financial expansion impacts of the Hometown Love Donation Policy in Chungchengnam-do. The results are as follows : Chungcheongnam-do is expected to bring financial expansion impacts ranging from at least 2.27 billion KRW to as much as 238.41 billion KRW. Depending on policy scenarios that consider realistic motivations for individuals to donate to the Hometown Love Donation Policy, which is tax deductions, the expected financial expansion impacts range from a relatively lower level of 2.27 billion KRW to 78.39 billion KRW. We derived policy implications for local governments in Korea, including Chungcheongnam￾do from the previous analysis. Local governments need to establish strategies for utilizing the policy, based on understandings of the operational principles of the policy and the actual scale of financial impacts. In doing so, it would be necessary to consider fostering industries and companies related to return presents of the policy for the regional economic development.