Someone looked at the tax information… Reckless delinquents flocked to Seocho, Gangnam

It was found that until last year, the national tax that the government had not received reached 100 trillion won.

According to ‘National Tax Statistics for the First Quarter of 2022’ announced by the National Tax Service on the 31st, the accumulated national tax arrears amounted to 99.86 trillion won as of the end of last year. The accumulated national tax arrears began to be counted from the first half of last year, and in June last year, it was 98.73 trillion won. This is an increase of more than 1 trillion won in 6 months

The accumulated national tax arrears, which is the amount in arrears for which the extinctive prescription of the right to collect national tax has not passed, is divided into ‘arrears during settling’, which is highly likely to be collected, and ‘arrears with collection pending’ with low probability of collection. Among them, the amount of arrears with reorganization was 88.5 trillion won, which was slightly lower than in June of last year (88.79 trillion won), but accounted for 88.5% of the total arrears. The amount of arrears during reorganization was 11,453.6 billion won, an increase of about 1.5 trillion won from June last year (9.94 trillion won), accounting for 11.5% of the total arrears.

An official from the National Tax Service said, “The amount of arrears during settling is intensively managed through individual collection activities throughout the year, and the amount of arrears on settling is being managed after conversion to computerized management. “There are aspects that are difficult to collect,” he said.

Looking at the accumulated arrears by tax category, value-added tax was the largest at 26.8 trillion won (36.3%), followed by income tax of 22.5 trillion won (30.4%), capital gains tax of 11.9 trillion won (16.1%), and corporate tax of 8.5 trillion won (11.5%). was sequential.

The tax office with the largest amount of accumulated arrears was not receiving tax by KRW 2.387.2 trillion in Gangnam, while Seocho (2.37 trillion won), Ansan (2.27 trillion won), Samsung (2.223 trillion won) and Banpo (2.17 trillion won) ) followed. The large amount of arrears in Gangnam, Seocho, and Banpo in Seoul is known to be high because self-employed people who mainly pay VAT are concentrated, and there are also a lot of non-payment of real estate-related taxes. The tax office with the lowest accumulated arrears amounted to 58.3 billion won in Yeongdeok, Gyeongbuk.

Last year, the National Tax Service recorded 334.5 trillion won in tax revenue, up 20.6% (57.2 trillion won) from the previous year (277.3 trillion won). The ratio of tax revenue from the National Tax Service to total national tax was 97.2%, an increase of 0.1 percentage point compared to 2020 (97.1%). The total national tax consists of tax revenue from the National Tax Service, customs duties, customs duties, and special tax for rural areas.

By tax category, income tax was the largest at 114.1 trillion won (34.1%), followed by value-added tax of 71.2 trillion won (21.3%) and corporate tax of 70.4 trillion won (21.0%).

Among the 130 tax offices nationwide, Suyeong, Busan, received the highest amount of tax at 20.3 trillion won. The Suyeong Tax Office is a government office with a high proportion of securities transaction tax, which increased by 18.7% compared to 2020 (17.1 trillion won). The Suyeong Tax Office has jurisdiction over Nam-gu and Suyeong-gu, Busan, and the Korea Exchange and KSD headquarters are located in Nam-gu. Next was Namdaemun (18.23 trillion won), Yeongdeungpo (12.49 trillion won), Ulsan (10.69 trillion won), and Samsung (9.26 trillion won). Gyeongbuk Yeongdeok (107.2 billion won) had the lowest tax revenue, and Jeongeup (123.9 billion won), Namwon (140.2 billion won), Geochang (145.9 billion won), and Yeongdong (155.3 billion won) were also selected as tax offices with the lowest tax revenue.

The National Tax Service released a total of 73 items on the same day, including generalization and collection (34 items), liquor tax (4 items), consumption tax (4 items), tax investigation (5 items), work incentives (11 items), and others (15 items). did. This is an increase of 13 from the 60 released in the first quarter of last year, and it is equivalent to 13.4% of the total national tax statistics (based on 546 published in 2021).

An official from the National Tax Service said, “Before the publication of the National Tax Annual Report, the statistics that can be produced are scheduled to be released on a quarterly basis through the National Tax Statistics Portal (TASIS) so that they can be used in a more timely manner.” We will continue to strive to improve the quality of statistical services, such as developing national tax statistics and TASIS content.”

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