After President Lee Jae-myung said during a Cabinet meeting on the morning of the 27th that "the National Assembly is too slow to get things done," it was learned on the 28th that Deputy Prime Minister for the Economy Koo Yun-cheol that afternoon asked the National Assembly for the "swift handling of the amendment to the National Claims Management Act."
The amendment to the National Claims Management Act is intended to allow the National Tax Service to integrate the management not only of delinquent taxes but also of claims the state should exercise, and the government plans to introduce it in February. When President Lee Jae-myung pointed out at the Cabinet meeting on the 27th that collections of various arrears other than national taxes were sluggish, National Tax Service Commissioner Lim Gwang-hyeon said they were waiting for the amendment to the National Claims Management Act. Then Lee said, "The legislative pace is too slow. Even before (the law is amended), couldn't you conduct joint management?"
In response, some inside and outside the government said, "With the ruling Democratic Party holding a majority of seats in the National Assembly, didn't the president rebuke the situation in which the government is responding passively as if it is waiting for the law to be amended even though it has not even submitted a bill?"
In the end, Deputy Prime Minister for the Economy and Minister Koo Yun-cheol stepped in. On the afternoon of the 27th, while meeting with National Assembly Planning and Finance Committee Chair Lim Lee-ja, Koo delivered to the National Assembly a list of bills for which he was requesting swift handling, and he included the amendment to the National Claims Management Act. In political circles, people said, "It is a bill the government will introduce in February, but after the president's pointed remark, they asked the National Assembly in advance to handle it swiftly."
Some also say there is a reason President Lee Jae-myung singled out the amendment to the National Claims Management Act. On the 13th, the government launched a task force to prepare for integrated collection of non-tax revenues. Over the past five years alone, unpaid non-tax revenues have reached 112 trillion won. While the National Tax Service focuses on managing national taxes, non-tax revenues are handled separately by multiple government ministries, drawing criticism that they are not being properly managed.