Kim Tae-hee Explains Multi-Million Won Tax Reclaim Due to "Delay in Advertising Fee Payment"

2021 Special Tax Investigation Conducted
Lee Byung-hun and Kwon Sang-woo Also Fined Hundreds of Millions

Actor Kim Tae-hee has been imposed with a supplementary tax payment amounting to several hundred million won by the National Tax Service.

According to industry sources on the 1st, the National Tax Service conducted a special (non-regular) tax audit on Kim Tae-hee and her then-agency Lua Entertainment in 2021. A special tax audit is initiated by the National Tax Service when there is suspicion of tax evasion by a corporation or individual.

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Lua Entertainment is a management company established and operated by Kim Tae-hee's older sister. Kim Tae-hee was active as an affiliated actor since the company's establishment in July 2009, before moving to Story J Company in 2019.

After reports of the tax supplement surfaced, Story J Company issued a statement saying, "At the time when the management contract with Kim Tae-hee's former agency expired, the payment of advertising model fees that the client was supposed to pay was somewhat delayed. The former agency, having received the model fees, transferred the fees to Kim Tae-hee personally after the contract expired," adding, "The former agency and Kim Tae-hee reported and faithfully paid taxes on the revenue, but due to a disagreement with the National Tax Service regarding whether the model fees should be considered as personal revenue of the actor rather than the former agency's corporation, additional tax payments were made."

They further emphasized, "There was no misconduct of any kind, and we clearly state that only additional taxes were incurred and have been faithfully paid."

The National Tax Service recently announced that it conducted comprehensive tax audits on 84 individuals, including celebrities, athletes, webtoon artists, YouTubers, and platform operators. During this process, actors Lee Byung-hun and Kwon Sang-woo were also reported to have paid supplementary taxes amounting to several hundred million won.

Lee Byung-hun's side stated, "The supplementary tax arose during the process of correcting accounting treatment, not due to tax evasion," and Kwon Sang-woo's side also explained that the reports of supplementary taxes in the billions of won were due to errors in the accounting process.

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