Gwangju City Publishes List of 270 High-Amount and Habitual Local Tax Delinquents

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 16th that it has disclosed the list of 270 high-amount and habitual defaulters of local taxes and local administrative penalties and charges on the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and the city’s website.

The disclosed list targets high-amount and habitual defaulters with local taxes or local administrative penalties and charges overdue by more than one year and amounting to 10 million KRW or more, as stipulated by the Local Tax Collection Act and the Act on the Collection of Local Administrative Penalties and Charges. The list was finalized after review by the Local Tax Deliberation Committee.

As of January 1 this year, the preliminary notification targets for list disclosure were 293 for local taxes and 68 for local administrative penalties and charges.

After notifying the targets for list disclosure in March, a period of more than six months was given for explanation, and through prior notification and other measures, the amounts collected from the original list disclosure targets by the end of October were 2.2 billion KRW for local taxes and 540 million KRW for local administrative penalties and charges.

Among the list disclosure targets, 91 people who met exclusion criteria such as having arrears less than 10 million KRW or currently filing appeals were excluded from the final list disclosure. The finalized list of local tax defaulters includes 225 people (78 corporations and 147 individuals) with arrears totaling 8.6 billion KRW.

The list of local administrative penalties and charges defaulters includes 45 people (9 corporations and 36 individuals) with arrears totaling 1.3 billion KRW.

The disclosed items include the defaulter’s name or business name (corporate name), age, address, amount owed, and reason for arrears. If the defaulter is a corporation, the representative’s name is also disclosed.

Gwangju City plans to actively enforce administrative sanctions such as public information (credit delinquency) registration and travel bans against high-amount and habitual defaulters, and will track and investigate hidden assets of defaulters to carry out collection activities such as seizure, public auction, and home searches.

The disclosed list can be viewed on the city’s website and the high-amount and habitual defaulters list disclosure site.

Kim Younghee, head of the city’s Taxation Division, said, “The disclosure of the list of high-amount and habitual defaulters aims to induce voluntary payment and foster a culture of sincere tax payment. We will mobilize all our capabilities to collect arrears from those who evade payment by hiding assets despite having the ability to pay.”

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