All posts tagged "tax"

  • Yoido Full Gospel Church (Yonhap)
    Tax office launches probe on S. Korea’s largest church

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea’s tax office has launched a tax probe on the country’s largest church, sources said Monday. According to Yoido Full Gospel Church insiders, the National Tax Service (NTS) has started going through its...

    • Posted March 14, 2016
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  • It’s tax time, so you’d better think twice before clicking on that link in your email inbox. What may look like a legitimate communication from your bank, human resources department or email provider may actually be part of a scheme designed to steal the confidential information stored in your computer, or to gain access to the network it’s attached to. (Korea Times file)
    Watch out for phishy emails during tax season

    NEW YORK (AP) — It’s tax time, so you’d better think twice before clicking on that link in your email inbox. What may look like a legitimate communication from your bank, human resources department or email provider...

    • Posted February 25, 2016
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  • (Korea Times file)
    Seoul preparing to levy ‘Google tax’

    By Kim Jae-won The government plans to exchange financial information on multinational firms doing business here with members of the OECD and G20 countries in order to make them pay appropriate taxes to countries where profits are...

    • Posted January 28, 2016
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  • FILE - This March 22, 2013, file photo, shows exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. Fake IRS agents have targeted more than 366,000 people with harassing phone calls demanding payments and threatening jail as part of a huge nationwide tax scam that has cost taxpayers $15.5 million. More than 3,000 people have fallen for the ruse since 2013, Timothy Camus, a Treasury deputy inspector general for tax administration, said Thursday, March 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
    Fake IRS agents target more than 366,000 people in huge tax scam

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Fake IRS agents have targeted more than 366,000 people with harassing phone calls demanding payments and threatening jail in the largest scam of its kind in the history of the agency, a federal investigator...

    • Posted March 12, 2015
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  • Actor Song Seung-heon, right, and Girls' Generation Yoona stand for a photo after they received a presidential citation for paying taxes at the 49th taxpayers' day in the COEX exhibition center, southern Seoul, Tuesday. (Yonhap)
    Song Seung-hun and Yoona receive exemplary taxpayer award

    Actor Song Seung-hun, right, and Girls’ Generation member Yoona stand for a photo after they received a presidential award for being exemplary tax payers at the 49th taxpayers’ day in the COEX exhibition center, southern Seoul, Tuesday....

    • Posted March 3, 2015
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  • (Korea Times file)
    S. Korean gov’t mulls tax cuts for golfers on cue from president

    SEOUL (Yonhap) —  The Korean government is considering cutting taxes on golf, an official said Wednesday, quickly picking up a cue from President Park Geun-hye who a day earlier said the sport should be played more. The...

    • Posted February 4, 2015
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  • S. Korean cigarette tax hike higher than expected

    By Park Si-soo An unexpected bipartisan agreement to raise taxes on cigarettes by 2,000 won ($1.80) a packet has caught cigarette manufacturers, smokers and anti-smoking organizations as well as lawmakers by surprise. “We are taken aback,” one...

    • Posted December 3, 2014
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