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People who have survived without paying their taxes were caught by the National Tax Service.

Bundles of cash that had been hidden in people's safes and cars spilled out.



Reporter Jo Ki-ho at the crackdown site delivers.



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When the National Tax Service employees ask the whereabouts of the tax delinquent, the person living with them answers:



[National Tax Service Collection Team: (You were there, but you went to Jinhae.) I confirmed that you are living here now.] The



voice grew louder and louder,



[National Tax Service Collection Team: To not pay taxes.

(They must have run away, where did they run away.)]



Finally, they push the employees away.



[Child, get out of the way.] The



police even came, but they resist desperately.



[Why do I have to be like this?]



[National Tax Service Collection Team: Who is there?

Are you over there?]



The firefighter opens the locked door, and then the delinquent person appears in embarrassment.



[National Tax Service Collection Team: Sir, why didn't you come while you were there?

(Igo….)]



The National Tax Service searched the house and found 100 million won in cash.



This man did not pay 1 billion won in taxes and lived in hiding in the house of his common-law spouse.



A reporter takes off his drapery to reveal a solid safe.



[National Tax Service Collection Team: Vault Second.]



It's full of 5,000 won bills.



These are the safes hidden in the officetel under the employee's name by a man who owed 1.4 billion won in arrears.



There was also a delinquent person who made a secret safe in the trunk of a car and hid 1.3 billion won in cash and gold bars worth 100 million won.



In addition to these on-site searches, the National Tax Service also investigated private equity funds for the first time.



It's to find delinquents you thought you wouldn't know if you put your money in a privately funded private equity fund.



[Kim Dong-il / Director General of Tax Collection Legal Affairs, National Tax Service: The first collection agency to investigate all delinquents who invested in private equity funds and seized the capital…

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Until last June, the National Tax Service collected 1.25 trillion won in taxes from doctors and lawyers who habitually owed large amounts of arrears.



In the second half of the year, an additional 527 high delinquents have been designated and are being investigated.



(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, editing: Yoon Tae-ho)