Tax Evasion and 9-Year Battle, 3.9 Billion Won Returned to Citizens... Ulsan City Officer Jo Hae-jin Awarded 'Green Jade Order of Merit'

3rd Active Administration Meritorious Government Awards

Recovering Revenue and Amending the Local Tax Act

An administrative officer waged a war against tax evasion and recovered 3.9 billion KRW after nine years of litigation. This also led to changes in the Local Tax Act.

This is the public service story of Jo Hae-jin, the head of the Special Mobile Collection Team in charge of tax administration at Ulsan City. He received the Green Stripes Order of Service Merit at the "3rd Active Administration Merit Government Awards."

The award ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. on the 8th in the Protocol Event Room on the 3rd floor of the Government Sejong Complex's Office for Government Policy Coordination. Prime Minister Han Duck-soo will present the medal.

The Active Administration Merit Government Awards, hosted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, started in 2021 to spread and establish a culture of proactive administration within the public sector by selecting and rewarding public officials and public enterprise employees who have achieved outstanding results through active administration.

This year, a total of 11 recipients were selected: 1 medal, 2 plaques, 4 presidential citations, and 4 prime minister citations.

Assistant Manager Jo Hae-jin, Ulsan City.

In 2013, Officer Jo Hae-jin recognized that D Securities was conducting a diesel import and sales business through overseas diesel and was purchasing and selling low-priced diesel with unpaid highway taxes by using an import company they had established, thereby gaining unfair profits. Officer Jo achieved the recovery of 3.9 billion KRW in tax revenue through nine years of administrative civil litigation.

In this process, he was credited with prompting the tax authorities to establish a precedent allowing them to claim damages against the mastermind of tax evasion for the first time, leading to an amendment of the Local Tax Act.

Previously, Officer Jo received the grand prize at the Ulsan City Active Administration Competition in the second half of last year and was granted the highest grade in performance-based salary as a preferential personnel measure.

Officer Jo said, “I am pleased to receive this honorable medal and will take it as a sign to work even harder for the citizens.”

Following Officer Kim Seong-wook’s receipt of the Green Stripes Order of Service Merit at the 2nd Active Administration Merit Government Awards held the previous year, Ulsan City has established itself as a local government leading active administration by receiving the Green Stripes Order of Service Merit again at the 3rd awards.

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