Guri City Implements Overseas Travel Ban on High-Amount Tax Delinquents

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Um In-yong] Guri City announced on the 9th that it will conduct a comprehensive investigation into overseas travel bans for high-amount local tax delinquents exceeding 30 million won over a five-month period from this month through December.

The investigation targets local tax delinquents for whom securing tax claims is impossible and there is concern about evading tax collection enforcement.

To this end, the city will query various data including passport records, foreign exchange transaction histories, publicly disclosed lists, and entry and exit documentation before selecting candidates for the travel ban. The city plans to request the Ministry of Justice to impose the travel ban on these individuals by December.

Those selected for the travel ban through the review process will be prohibited from traveling overseas for six months.

The city is currently in the process of identifying the number of high-amount local tax delinquents with arrears exceeding 30 million won. The investigation has identified 93 individuals with total tax arrears amounting to approximately 9.3 billion won, the city added.

Lee Young-hee, head of the City's Tax Collection Division, said, "Through careful investigation of high-amount delinquents, we will do our utmost in tax collection by implementing strong collection enforcement and administrative sanctions in parallel, so that compliant taxpayers do not feel a sense of relative deprivation."