By Kim Jae-won
Staff Reporter
Gangnam District, southern Seoul, ranked number one in the number of taxpayers, both corporate and self-employed, the National Tax Service (NTS) said Monday.
The district, one of the richest in the country, reported the largest number of 121,000 business operators, both in corporations and individual businesses, followed by Junggu District, central Seoul; Goyang; and Suwon, which had 112,000, 103,000, and 101,000, respectively.
Junggu District in Seoul posted the highest ratio of total taxpayers to business operators at 85.6 percent. Junggu District in Busan and Jongro District were at 38.9 percent and 37.7 percent, respectively.
Gangnam claimed the most corporate operators with 33,000 businesses, while Junggu District, Seoul, was the most preferred area for individual business operators with 101,000.
“Gangnam is well equipped with a solid social infrastructure, while there are many clothing shops in Junggu District,” said Kim Duk-joong, National Tax Service (NTS) assistant commissioner for planning and coordination.
However, the economy is still heavily polarized with most rural areas having few business operators.
Yeongyang, North Gyeongsang Province, reported the fewest number of business operators with just 1,284, 0.02 percent of the total.
The tax agency also grouped the taxes into 11 categories, such as comprehensive income, capital gains and interest gains, to analyze the statistics more precisely.
The NTS also revealed that corporations that had been around longer paid more in taxes.
The 10,000 corporations, which have operated here for more than 30 years, paid 42.2 percent of the total corporate taxes, with each company paying on average 1.5 billion won.
The NTS also will kick off an e-book service, which will allow people to search the statistics on taxation online, from January 2010.
The tax agency also plans to install a tax statistics information system to store accurate documents.
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