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large number of people who were pretending to be foreigners living in Korea were caught when it was time to pay taxes.

In particular, recently, because of the coronavirus, there are people who came to Korea and enjoyed all the quarantine and medical benefits, but did not want to pay taxes properly, but the National Tax Service decided to investigate more thoroughly.



For more information, this is reporter Lim Tae-woo.



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A foreign citizen, Mr. A, did not pay any taxes while inheriting local real estate from his permanent resident father.



The gift was given by way of an expedient method using a local paper company, but it was a foreign citizenship and did not report the gift tax in Korea.



However, it was investigated that most of A was staying in Korea except for the period of studying abroad, and he was levied billions of won in gift tax.



Mr. B, an asset owner of tens of billions of won, who runs a real estate rental business in Korea, pretended to be a non-resident and did not pay income tax.



It is said that he spent more than half of the year in a foreign country due to frequent business trips, and the tax authorities determined that Mr. B had never acquired foreign nationality and that most of his family and property were in Korea, and that he was obligated to pay tax.



There have even been instances of taking domestic health insurance benefits multiple times without paying taxes for being a U.S. citizen.



Only the pattern is foreigners, and they are people who live mainly in Korea with their families and are no different from Koreans.




[No Jeong-seok / Director of Investigation Bureau, National Tax Service: We looked at all the credit card details.

The fact that they received medical treatment at a domestic medical institution is clearly confirmed.] As more and more people



leave Korea for reasons of immigration or education and then return to Korea to enjoy treatment and quarantine benefits due to the corona 19 pandemic, the tax authorities are asking whether they are tax evasion It is a policy to focus on research.



(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, Video editing: Won-hee Won)