YOON&YANG
To reduce potential tax risks and to ensure stable business activities, it is often necessary to obtain a tax authority’s authoritative interpretation of tax laws and regulations in advance. The Tax Trial & Authoritative Interpretation Team of Yoon & Yang’s Tax Practice offers quality legal services to obtain from tax authorities authoritative interpretation of tax laws and regulations favorable to clients.

Key Services

  • Pre-assessment review
  • Tax appeal, request for examination, and request for adjudication against national, local, customs duty, and international tax imposition
  • Request for correction of erroneous payment or overpayment of national/local tax; tax appeal, and request for adjudication against dispositions refusing such corrections
  • Application for preliminary answer from the National Tax Service; written request to obtain authoritative interpretations
  • Civil petition with the Ministry of Interior and Safety and local governments to obtain authoritative interpretation of tax laws and regulations

Representative Cases

  • Appealed gift tax assessments on donation of foreign funds
  • Appealed corporate tax, value-added tax and acquisition tax levied on a trust company in relation to a trust project
  • Appealed corporate tax levied based on delayed collection of account receivables from an overseas subsidiary and relocation of the head office
  • Appealed value-added tax levied on KORAIL with respect to the allocation of common input tax on KORAIL’s public service subsidy
  • Obtained a favorable ruling for a domestic airline operating aircrafts using operating leases in a case seeking refund of rural special tax
  • Appealed comprehensive real estate tax and obtained a favorable ruling regarding the scope of property tax deduction applicable in calculating comprehensive real estate tax
  • Appealed acquisition tax levied on a broadcaster in connection with the relocation of its head office
  • Obtained a favorable ruling regarding local tax reduction or exemption for real estate on which to establish a knowledge industry center
  • Appealed general income tax levied on corporate bonuses
  • Pre-assessment review involving value-added tax related to long-term leases of unsold apartment units
  • Appealed customs duties and individual consumption tax levied on power generation fuel imported by a power company
  • Civil petition requesting authoritative interpretation concerning acquisition tax levied on domestic trust companies
  • Obtained preliminary answer from the National Tax Service regarding oil tax refund due to the distribution of tax-free oil