The National Tax Service announced on the 8th that it has appointed Lee Kwang-sook, a professor in the Department of Business Administration at Korea University of Technology and Education, as the new taxpayer protection officer.
The taxpayer protection officer protects the rights of taxpayers to ensure there are no unjust taxpayers during the enforcement of national tax administration, and plays a role in improving the inconveniences of on-site tax duties. The officer also supports small taxpayers struggling due to economic downturns.
Lee Kwang-sook, the new taxpayer protection officer, has served as a professor in the Department of Business Administration at Korea University of Technology and Education since 2013.
He has also served as a non-permanent judge at the Tax Tribunal, a member of the regulatory review committee of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, a national tax review member of the National Tax Service, and a taxpayer protection committee member at the Seoul Regional Tax Service. He also has experience working at an accounting firm as a certified public accountant.
The National Tax Service noted, "This professor is an expert who has worked to realize the value of taxpayer rights protection by publishing numerous papers on ways to strengthen taxpayers' procedural rights during the tax enforcement process," and said, "He will play an important role in further advancing taxpayer protection efforts."