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Usually, when you pay by credit card, you will be notified directly to the IRS of who used it and where. However, there are places where card payments are made without the knowledge of the tax authorities. Until the end of SBS, the panda team was informed of the existence of this new tax evasion and followed it.

Reporter Kim Kwan-jin.

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A Japanese pub in Gangnam, Seoul.

When ordering alcohol and snacks, female assistants come in turn.

[Business staff: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th. Remember the number.]

Only the interior decoration is a tavern, and it is no different from a nightlife pub.

It is popular enough to access only by making a reservation after registering.

I checked the industry.

Oddly, management consulting comes out.

In the fourth quarter of 2018, the sales reported to the tax authorities for three months in the fourth quarter of 2018 were KRW 150 million.

However, it was confirmed that in December of the same year, sales by card alone exceeded 120 million won.

Ignoring the cash sales, it is suspected that the report was reduced by more than half even if the card sales were taken.

So how could the business hide its sales?

Normally, credit card payments cannot be deceived because the amount of money spent by each person and the details of the merchants are notified to the IRS every day through a ban company.

Then, the secret of the business you saw earlier, the reduction report, is on this device.

It looks similar to a regular card payment terminal, but this terminal is a payment gateway, PG company terminal.

PG acts as a representative merchant between credit card companies and the internet or small businesses that are unable to enter into direct merchant contracts.

Like other credit card merchants, sales of PG companies go to the IRS every day, but the sales of merchants under the PG companies can be reported quarterly.

The problem arises from unregistered PG companies that illegally recruit secondary merchants without registering a payment agency under the PG company.

Since only the sales of unregistered companies, which are the primary affiliates, are delivered to the National Tax Service, the sales of secondary affiliates under the unregistered enterprises are beyond the monitoring of tax authorities.


Unregistered PG companies that are selling secondary franchisees may reduce revenues by inflating the cost to reduce taxes or even report closures, bypassing the pursuit of tax authorities.

[Unregistered PG company employees: You can think of almost 1,000 (unregistered) PG companies operating in various names and forms.]

The representative of the business that the reporter visited previously explained that the PG company had taken care of the tax return and followed it, but it was not intentionally evaded.

Also, he originally registered for management consulting to do distribution business, etc., and later opened the pub, and said that the store had already been handed over to others.

Tomorrow (14th), we will delve into the fact that unregistered PG companies are tax-saving, and even small business owners are exposing themselves as a risk of tax evasion.

(Video coverage: Moon-san Bae, Video editing: Moo-Hwan Jo, CG: Sung-Hong Hong, VJ: Joon-Ho Kim)