As decentralization becomes one of the major issues in Korea in recent years, various local tax expansion measures are being discussed, such as raising the local tax rate and transferring some of the national tax to the local tax to increase the proportion of local tax.
In light of the increase significance of local tax, Lee & Ko Tax Practice Group composed a new group of local tax experts who have extensive experiences in local tax areas, working at the Ministry of Public Administration and Security and the Local Tax Studies Committee and serving as an Editorial Director of Onju (Online Commentary on Korean Law published by LAWnB) Local Tax Law. This highly specialized local tax team provides systematic advisory and litigation services in sophisticated and complicated local tax matters.