Assignment of Industrial Technical Personnel to High-Debt Companies

An industrial technical personnel working at Seojin Precision located in Gimhae-si, Gyeongnam

[Asia Economy Yang Nak-gyu, Military Specialist Reporter] It has been revealed that the Military Manpower Administration assigned industrial technical personnel to companies with high-value and habitual tax delinquencies. As the number of industrial technical personnel is being reduced to secure military service resources, companies that actually need manpower are reportedly suffering disadvantages.

According to data submitted by the Military Manpower Administration on the 13th to Kang Dae-sik, a member of the National Assembly Defense Committee from the People Power Party, the National Tax Service publicly discloses the list of individuals and companies who have overdue taxes for more than one year and amounts exceeding 200 million KRW in accordance with the Framework Act on National Taxes. Comparing this list with companies assigned industrial technical personnel, it was confirmed that since 2018, four personnel were assigned to two companies with high-value and habitual tax delinquencies.

Team Korea Co., Ltd. has unpaid taxes totaling 339 million KRW for five cases including value-added tax since 2015. However, two industrial technical personnel were assigned in 2018, and one was assigned last year. Korea Turbo Machinery Co., Ltd. has delinquent taxes amounting to 380 million KRW for 18 cases including earned income tax since 2016, but one industrial technical personnel was assigned in 2016. As of July this year, the number of personnel serving as industrial technical personnel is 24,832. The industrial sector accounts for the largest number with 23,642, followed by agriculture and fisheries with 829, and defense companies with 280.

Assemblyman Kang said, "In cooperation with the Customs Service and local governments, industrial technical personnel should not be assigned to companies with high-value and habitual tax delinquencies, and there is a need to improve the overall industrial technical personnel system."

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