On the 14th, the National Tax Service held a kickoff meeting for the 'Future Innovation Promotion Team' chaired by Administrator Lim Kwang-Hyun at the Seoul Regional Tax Service. During the meeting, the National Tax Service appointed 16 private sector experts in the fields of AI and law/statistics as private sector committee members.
The private sector committee members tasked with promoting an AI transformation across the overall tax administration included Kwak Yong-Jae, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Naver Cloud, Bae Soon-Min, head of the KT AI Future Lab, Park Hye-Jin, a professor at Hanyang University School of Law (head of the AI and Law Research Center), and Lee Jin, CEO of LBox (AI legal precedent search service).
Lee Jeon-O, chairperson of the Ministry of Finance's Tax Reform Advisory Committee and honorary professor at Sungkyunkwan University, along with Park Hoon, a professor at the University of Seoul's Department of Taxation, and Yoon Sung-Soo, a professor at Korea University's Department of Business Administration, were appointed as specialized committee members for institutional improvement.
The National Tax Service noted that it will diligently pursue key tasks in collaboration with private sector technology innovators and legal/institutional experts to become a leading agency in AI.
During the meeting, they also discussed plans to recruit an 'online public advisory group' to incorporate public opinions into the innovation process of the National Tax Service. To listen to a variety of opinions on the activities of the Future Innovation Promotion Team, the National Tax Service plans to select members in a balanced manner based on job type, age, gender, and more. Applications for the advisory group will be received through the National Tax Service's website.
The Future Innovation Promotion Team selected 16 major tasks during the kickoff meeting, including 'AI-based tax administration service innovation,' 'advancing tax evasion and delinquency response through AI,' and 'creating AI infrastructure.'
Experts attending the meeting suggested that 'the function of national finance to overcome the current complex crisis situation and the role of the National Tax Service supporting it are crucial,' adding that 'the IT infrastructure, specialized technology, and data possessed by the National Tax Service must be effectively integrated.'
The National Tax Service plans to prepare innovation tasks by sector by the end of the year and establish a comprehensive plan, which will then be announced in the form of a public report.