Local Taxes, Local Administrative Penalties, and Charges: Public Disclosure of High-Amount and Habitual Delinquent Lists

9,728 People with Over 10 Million Won in Arrears
Disclosed on Ministry of the Interior and Safety, Each City and Province Websites, and WETAX

The list of 9,728 delinquent taxpayers (8,795 for local taxes and 933 for local administrative sanctions and charges) with arrears of 10 million won or more has been disclosed.

On the 15th, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety announced that, based on January 1 of this year, the list of high-amount and habitual delinquents who have not paid local taxes or local administrative sanctions and charges of 10 million won or more for over one year will be disclosed on the Ministry of the Interior and Safety website, each city and province website, and Witax. The disclosed information includes the delinquent taxpayer's name, business name (corporate name), age, occupation, address, details of the tax items in arrears, payment deadlines, and reasons for delinquency. If the delinquent is a corporation, the representative of the corporation will also be disclosed. The disclosure process involved notifying the subjects of the disclosure as of January 1 of this year in advance and providing a period of more than six months for explanation.

The disclosure of the list of high-amount and habitual delinquents is conducted simultaneously nationwide with metropolitan governments on the third Wednesday of November every year to raise awareness about delinquency and actively respond to the decrease in local tax revenue. This time, the disclosed local tax delinquents were concentrated in Seoul (1,497 people) and Gyeonggi-do (2,618 people), accounting for nearly half of the total disclosed list (46.8%). The main tax items for the top 10 individual and corporate delinquents were local income tax and acquisition tax.

In the case of local administrative sanctions and charges, 534 people (42.6 billion won) from the Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi metropolitan areas accounted for more than half (57.2%) of the total number disclosed. The main tax item was the cadastral re-survey adjustment fee under the "Special Act on Cadastral Re-survey," with 173 cases being the most frequent.

Choi Byung-kwan, Director of the Local Finance and Economy Office, stated, “We will strictly respond to high-amount and habitual delinquents and thoroughly manage arrears of local taxes and other charges,” adding, “Through this, we will realize fair taxation and continuously strive to establish a culture of sincere payment.”

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