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Real estate measures have strengthened verification of home purchase funds, but there are still many people trying to avoid tax.
In some cases, private equity funds and paper-based companies were used, and a few people saved money and started investing in gaps as a kind of account.
Reporter Jeong Seong-jin on the report.
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A real estate private equity fund raised billions of won in rental income by buying more than 100 houses in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province.
However, corporations that invested more than 90% of the funds in this private equity fund received dividends from the fund's income and did not pay any corporate tax.
This corporation was a paper company with a capital of 100 won, but investors made fake expenses to steal corporate funds.
They tried to speculate on real estate using private equity funds and not even pay corporate taxes and income taxes using paper companies.
In order to avoid the heavy transfer tax imposed on multi-homed people, some people have been caught investing in gaps by forming a kind of gathering.
Five residents saved money and bought several apartments in Seoul, but they avoided a heavy transfer tax by making the homeless person the name of the apartment.
Among those in their 30s or younger who bought expensive apartments, 76 people whose funding source was unclear were also subjected to a tax audit.
Of these, 30 were foreign nationals Koreans, so-called dark-haired foreigners.
[Kim Tae-ho/Director of Asset Taxation Bureau, National Tax Service: Tracking the flow of the source of funds to the end, verifying the actual borrowing, etc., and verifying the ability to raise funds for the borrower and corporation if necessary...
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IRS plans to thoroughly verify the flow of funds for younger people who claim to have purchased their homes by borrowing money from their parents, etc. until the debt repayment is complete.
(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, Video editing: Kim Jun-hee)