The National Tax Service said on the 16th that it will grant special promotions to 56 employees based on job performance. Until now, it said it had also selected special promotion candidates in consideration of their career and years of service. However, this time, for the first time since its establishment, special promotees were decided through a blind evaluation by general employees, according to reports.
Han Hyo-suk, a Deputy Director at the Seoul Jungbu Regional Tax Office, has been slated for promotion from Grade 6 to Grade 5 after being recognized for performance in the delinquent tax field. Han located a delinquent taxpayer who had disappeared without paying capital gains tax by tracking credit card transactions and other records, then discovered hundreds of millions of won in cash hidden in a salt jar and collected all the taxes due.
Jeong Hwa-young, a Deputy Director at the Seoul Jungnang Tax Office, suspected a hiking backpack while searching the home of a high-amount capital gains tax delinquent, opened it, and found cash and gold bars worth hundreds of millions of won. As a result, both national taxes and local government tax delinquencies were fully paid. Jeong will be promoted from Grade 7 to Grade 6.
Kang Min-gyu, a Deputy Director at the Busan Regional Tax Office, will be promoted from Grade 8 to Grade 7 for performance in investigations. During a tax audit of a designated driver platform, Kang secured massive data including five years of driver job records, verified fake tax invoices, and imposed additional corporate tax of several billions of won.
National Tax Service Commissioner Lim Gwang-hyeon said, "We will continue to establish a performance-oriented organizational culture through fair and transparent personnel management and build a tax administration trusted by the public."