Actor Lee Min Ho is the latest celebrity who underwent a special audit from the National Tax Service, prompting his agency MYM Entertainment to explain Thursday, March 2, why he had to pay several hundreds of millions of won in penalty.
Earlier reports claimed that the actor underwent an irregular tax investigation under the Seoul Regional Tax Service office. According to the reports, the actor was required to pay a hefty amount in taxes.
A representative from MYM Entertainment explained why the actor and the agency were fined a huge amount of money. According to the statement, there was an error in the accounting process.
Read the agency’s full statement below.
“Hello. This is MYM Entertainment.
We would like to make this announcement to correct matters related to our agency and our agency’s artist.
The agency and actor Lee Min Ho have been paying taxes dutifully, and there has never been a single unsavory incident.
The current situation is an issue that arose due to a difference in interpretation of whether our artist’s previously dealt matter of “compensation for damages caused by the use of illegal portrait rights” was subject to taxation or not, and it was about an additional tax that was determined due to an accounting error in the process of handling corporate expenses. With regard to this, we have dutifully paid.
Thank you.”
Aside from Lee Min Ho, other celebrities like Kwon Sang Woo, Kim Tae Hee, and Lee Byung Hun recently get special tax audits.
Source: Naver
