Lee Kun-hee, South Korea’s richest person and chairperson of Samsung Electronics Co, died on Sunday, leaving behind considerable assets subject to be potentially inherited by his surviving family and inheritance tax.
Here is a rundown of his net worth, which Forbes says amounts to $20.9 billion, and expected inheritance tax.
STOCKS
Lee was the wealthiest stock owner in South Korea and had stakes in four listed
Samsung companies valued at about 18.2 trillion won ($16.1 billion) as of Friday’s closing price.
His stock ownership included 4.18% of Samsung Electronics common shares and 0.08% of preferred shares,
worth about 15 trillion won in total; a 20.76% stake in Samsung Life Insurance worth about 2.6 trillion won;
a 2.88% stake in Samsung C&T worth about 564 billion won; and a 0.01% stake in Samsung SDS
worth about 1.67 billion won, according to Reuters calculations based on Fair Trade Commission data.
REAL ESTATE
His two known houses in central Seoul are the priciest individual homes in the country,
with a ground area of 1,245.1 and 3,422.9 square meters, respectively.
They valued at about 40.9 billion won and 34.2 billion won, Yonhap news agency reported earlier this year.
HEFTY INHERITANCE TAX
According to South Korean tax rules, before applying the country’s 50% inheritance tax rate on listed stocks,
a 20% premium added to the appraisal value of the deceased person’s holdings,
which will be based on the four-month average of the shares’ closing market price before and after the death.
On current estimates, we expect the inheritance tax for the above stocks alone to be around 10.6 trillion won, according to a Reuters calculation.
CHILDREN’S WEALTH
Jay Y. Lee, de facto heir to the elder Lee, has stakes worth a total of about 7.2 trillion
won in six of Samsung Group’s listed affiliates as of Friday’s closing, according to a Reuters calculation.
The younger Lee has a 0.7% stake in Samsung Electronics and a 17.3% stake in Samsung C&T, the group’s de facto holding firm.
He also owns a 9.2% stake in Samsung SDS, 1.5% in Samsung Engineering, and less than 0.1% of Samsung Life Insurance
and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance each, according to regulatory filings.
Daughters Lee Boo-jin, CEO of Hotel Shilla, and Lee Seo-hyun, who runs the Samsung Foundation,
each own stakes in Samsung C&T and Samsung SDS worth about 1.6 trillion won.
($1 = 1,127.9500 won)
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