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One of the future hopes of elementary school students these days is a YouTuber.

When I looked at the contents of the IRS report on how much they earned, the top 1% of the 30 people earned nearly 700 million won a year.

However, the YouTube industry also had a huge income gap.



This is reporter Jeong Seong-jin.



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YouTubers boasting millions of subscribers with materials related to food, beauty, and children.



Depending on the number of views, it is known that not only advertising revenue received from Google, but also sponsored advertising revenue is earned, but the exact amount of income has never been disclosed.



After the IRS classified media content creation as a new industry code in September 2019, the first income declarations of YouTubers who reported with this code were announced.



It has been confirmed that 2,776 people reported to YouTube, etc., and their income was 87.5 billion won, making an average annual average of 31.5 million won per person.



The top 1%, 27, earned nearly 700 million won a year, while the bottom 50% earned only 1 million won per person, widening the gap.



You can now get information on YouTubers' income, but there are still taxation blind spots.



As foreign companies directly receive advertising fees, tax evasion is being detected, such as bypassing profits through overseas accounts that are difficult to track or distributing profits to borrowed accounts.



Given the lack of taxation information such as domestic businesses, it is not easy to understand profits only by relying on self-reporting.



[Hong Ki-seon/Tax Accountant: Even if remittances come from abroad (less than a certain amount), the taxation is in the blind spot because the taxation office cannot be notified.] The



National Tax Service has

been in the taxation blind spot

since last year

.

In the case of remittance of foreign exchange at home and abroad, the company conducts detailed analysis of foreign exchange transaction data, and it is a policy to thoroughly supervise and manage tax evasion through overseas accounts through exchange of financial information between countries.



(Video coverage: Kim Heung-sik, video editing: Ha Sung-won)