Bae, Kim & Lee Launches "Tax Solution Center" to Strengthen Integrated Tax Risk Response

Im Jaehyun and Jo Ilyoung Appointed as Co-Heads of the Center

Comprehensive Support from Preliminary Diagnosis to Tax Appeals and Litigation

Law Firm Bae, Kim & Lee Tax Solution Center. Provided by Bae, Kim & Lee

On April 15, Law Firm Bae, Kim & Lee announced the launch of its "Tax Solution Center" to strengthen its capabilities in responding to tax risks.

Bae, Kim & Lee explained that as tax authorities have recently adopted big data and artificial intelligence (AI)-based analytical techniques, tax audits have become more sophisticated, and tax-related issues have expanded into complex risks that are intertwined with accounting, financial regulations, and criminal law. Accordingly, the firm established the center out of the necessity for a proactive response system that goes beyond simple post-facto tax appeals. This system will check for tax issues from the transaction structure design stage and, when necessary, connect to legislative amendments and authoritative interpretations.

The Tax Solution Center will be co-headed by Senior Advisor Im Jaehyun and Attorney Jo Ilyoung. In the policy and statutory interpretation sector, Center Head Im—former Director General for Tax Policy at the Ministry of Strategy and Finance and Standing Commissioner at the Tax Tribunal—and Specialist Lee Jooyoon, formerly of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance's Tax Policy Division, will participate. For tax audits and responses, the team includes Senior Advisor Kim Myungjun, former Commissioner of the Seoul Regional Tax Office; Senior Advisor Park Seokhyun, former Commissioner of the Gwangju Regional Tax Office and former Director of Investigation Bureau 3 at the Seoul Regional Tax Office; and Tax Accountant Park Youngseong, who previously worked at the Investigation Bureau of the Seoul Regional Tax Office.

In the area of tax litigation, the team is led by Center Head Jo, who formerly served as Tax Law Research Officer at the Supreme Court, along with attorneys Kim Kyungmok, Bang Jinyoung, Jang Seongdu, and tax accountant Choi Gwangbaek. The recent recruitment of Attorney Park Inhye has further strengthened the team’s capacity to handle tax appeals.

Bae, Kim & Lee plans to offer a strategy that organically connects all processes—from preliminary diagnosis to pre-trial procedures and tax litigation—by fostering collaboration among experts from the National Tax Service, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Tax Tribunal, accounting firms, and the judiciary.

Center Head Im stated, "We will provide advisory services that structurally analyze tax risks from the stage of corporate decision-making and offer integrated responses through to the post-event stage."

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