Ganghwa County Receives Special Award at Ministry of Interior and Safety's 2021 National Local Tax Development Forum

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Shin Eun-seop] Ganghwa County announced on the 15th that it received the Special Award, the Korea Local Tax Association Chairman's Award, at the '2021 National Local Tax Development Forum' held recently at B Hotel in Sejong Special Self-Governing City.

The Local Tax Development Forum is Korea's largest-scale event in the local tax field, organized by the Ministry of Interior and Safety and hosted by the Korea Local Tax Research Institute, where experts and practitioners in local tax-related fields gather annually to explore directions for local tax development through research project presentations, seminars, and other programs.

This Local Tax Development Forum served as a venue to discuss and present new tax source discovery and institutional improvement measures amid rapidly changing times, and was conducted with the participation of representatives from 17 cities and provinces and private sector experts.

Ganghwa County received the Excellence Award at the Incheon City Local Tax Working Conference held in September and participated as Incheon Metropolitan City's representative. Kim Min-hong, a staff member from the Finance Division who participated as a presenter, received the 'Special Award' after receiving praise from judges for presenting '改善措施 on Acquisition Tax for Vehicle Structural Modifications' as a topic, proposing reasonable taxation methods for acquisition tax on camper vehicle structural modifications.