(1) The inheritance tax shall be levied by the head of tax office having jurisdiction over the place of the domicile (in case where either the person to be succeeded does not have a domicile or it is unknown, it means a temporary domicile of the person to be succeeded, hereinafter referred to as a “place of the commencement of succession”) of the successor (with
respect to taxation matters of a succession that the Commissioner of the National Tax Service deems especially important, the inheritance tax shall be levied by the Director of the Regional Tax Office; hereinafter referred to as the “head of a tax office, etc.”): Provided, That when the place of the commencement of succession is overseas, the inheritance tax shall be levied by the head of a tax office, etc. having jurisdiction over the location of the property which is within the territory of Korea, and in case where the inherited property is within the jurisdictional areas of the heads of two or more tax offices, etc., the inheritance tax shall be levied by the head of tax office, etc. having jurisdiction over the location of the main property.