Newsletter

Actor Yoon Tae-young Loses Second Trial in Legal Battle Over Gift Tax Imposition

Photo = Reporter Byun Seong-hyeon Actor Yoon Tae-young lost the second trial of the legal case to cancel the imposition of gift tax against the tax authorities, effectively losing the case.

According to the legal community on the 23rd, the Administrative Division of the Seoul High Court 8-3 (Chief Judge Shin Yong-ho, Jeong Chong-ryeong, and Cho Jin-gu) upheld the partial judgment in favor of the first trial plaintiff in the appeal trial the lawsuit recently filed by Yoon Tae-young against the head of the Gangnam Tax Office to cancel the imposition of gift tax.

Previously, Taeyoung Yoon received 400,000 shares of stock of a real estate rental company run by his father as a gift in September 2019 and paid gift tax equivalent to 3.1668 billion won in gift property value, but the tax authorities interpreted the stocks as the acquisition. price, not the book value. win set on Yoon Tae-young.

Yoon Tae-young, who was dissatisfied with the disposition, filed a lawsuit, but the first trial ruled in favor of the tax authorities.

At the time, the issue was whether the ‘book value’ used in determining corporate value under the Commercial Taxes Increase Act should be viewed as the acquisition cost or the amount stated in the company’s financial statement, but the tax authorities’ argument was “the cost acquisition is the standard” accepted.

However, the additional tax was cancelled, saying that Yoon Tae-young only paid less gift tax because he misunderstood or misunderstood the law, and that it was illegal to hold him responsible for that .

Jang Ji-min, Hankyung.com guest reporter newsinfo@hankyung.com

#Yoon #Taeyoung #loses #lawsuit #trial #cancel #million #gift #tax #earned