The National Tax Service (NTS) has launched a nationwide delinquency management task force that will collect not only national taxes but also non-national tax revenue such as fines and penalty surcharges.
The NTS held a launch ceremony for the National and Non-National Tax Revenue Delinquency Management Task Force on Sunday at 133 tax offices across the country, attended by tax office heads, operating and accompanying officials, and status verification personnel. The task force aims to check the status of a total of 5.58 million people, including 1.34 million delinquent on national taxes and 4.24 million delinquent on non-national tax revenue.
The task force will conduct phone consultations and field investigations in parallel over six months until December 23. It will first notify delinquents of their arrears through phone consultations, then visit their residences or business sites to verify their living conditions and other circumstances.
Until now, non-national tax revenue arrears had been collected separately by each government ministry, but starting this year, the NTS delinquency management task force will manage them in an integrated manner. Status checks will begin with delinquent fines from the Korean National Police Agency, and the scope will later be expanded to non-national tax revenue from other ministries.
In a video message, NTS Commissioner Lim Kwang-hyun said, "The results the task force builds in the field will become the foundational data for future delinquency management," and urged, "I hope you will faithfully carry out your roles with a sense of responsibility."
Meanwhile, the NTS conducted practical training for the task force's status verification personnel from the 1st to the 7th of this month, covering topics such as taxpayer response procedures and confidentiality obligations. During the training period, Lim visited KINTEX in Gyeonggi Province on the 3rd to explain the task force's role and vision, saying, "The task force has the effect of one stone hitting five birds—tax justice, revenue securing, job creation, delinquency resolution, and welfare linkage." He added, "The NTS will do its utmost to support the task force's status verification personnel so they can feel pride in the field."
