44% Decrease in Comprehensive Income Tax In-Person Filers... Thanks to 'Simple Filing' Service

[Asia Economy Sejong=Reporter Kim Hyewon] This year, the number of taxpayers filing comprehensive income tax in person decreased by 44%.

On the 2nd, the National Tax Service announced that a total of 620,000 taxpayers visited tax offices to file their comprehensive income tax returns, a decrease of 480,000 (44%) compared to 1.1 million two years ago. Last year, filing counters were not operated to prevent COVID-19 infection.

The majority of in-person filers, including simple expense ratio business income earners and wage, pension, and other income earners, decreased by 380,000 (41%).

The National Tax Service analyzed that this is due to the establishment of a voluntary electronic filing culture among taxpayers and the provision of simplified filing services by the National Tax Service. The number of taxpayers directly filing comprehensive income tax electronically increased to 4.91 million last year.

This year, the National Tax Service expanded the 'Modu Chaeum' (auto-fill) target from 2.12 million last year to 4.97 million. For these taxpayers, simplified filing services such as ARS phone filing, which allows completion of filing with a single phone call, and one-click filing, which enables filing on a single screen, are provided.

A National Tax Service official said, "We will actively support improvements to Hometax and Sontax to be user-friendly so that filing can be done without visiting tax offices," and added, "We will also ensure that face-to-face services are not neglected for people with low IT accessibility, such as persons with disabilities and the elderly."

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