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Korea tax guide[Hometax]

Your Year-end tax settlement guide 2026 [PDF download] To start your year-end tax settlement in Korea, the very first thing you should do is to download ‘the PDF file’ from home tax. The PDF file shows information of all receipts,medical bills and other bills you paid in a year.​*If you don’t get this PDF file, you should collect all the receipts, medical bills and other bills by yourself​Almost all items are provided through this PDF file, but ther.. 더보기
Your 2026 January Tax schedule Nobody can deny that the most important tax schedule in January is VAT filing. The VAT return includes the company's revenues and costs and is reported to the tax office. This means that the company's revenues and costs are finalized. Once reported, it is difficult to correct these figures, so VAT filing is crucial.Unlike last October's VAT filing, which only corporation file their 3Q VAT and in.. 더보기
December 2025 Tax schedule If you own real estate in South Korea, you may be required to pay this tax. However, not all real estate is subject to the Comprehensive Real Estate Holding Tax. As the name suggests, this tax combines the value of all the realestate in Korea you own, and if the total exceeds a certain threshold, you must pay the tax.Although the rules are quite complex, to put it simply:If you own a house in Ko.. 더보기
November 2025 Tax schedule The main tax schedule for November is Interim individual income tax payment.It’s a prepayment of income tax that an individual business owner will pay in November this year, which will be credited toward the income tax due in May next year (for 2025 income, payable in May 2026).For example, if an individual business owner named Peter pays 5,000,000 KRW as interim tax in November 2025, and his fi.. 더보기
Ocotober 2025 Tax schedule This October 2025 comes with an unprecedentedly long holiday. From the 3rd to the 12th, including weekends, there will be a total of nine consecutive days off. If you’re from a European country, you might think it’s not a big deal — but for Koreans, it certainly is.For us as tax accountants, it’s particularly significant because the long holiday makes the tax filing deadlines quite tight. We app.. 더보기
Sep 2025 Tax schedule in Korea 2.Withholding tax filing(9/10) When you pay your employees a salary, it is your responsibility to deduct taxes from their salary before paying them.*For example, if your employee has a contracted salary of 2,000,000 KRW, you must deduct 100,000 KRW for taxes, and pay your employee 1,900,000 KRW. The 100,000 KRW you deducted must be reported on a withhold tax return and paid to the tax office on .. 더보기
What's new on 2026 tax law in Korea? The Korean government has announced tax law updates for next year. As this announcement serves as a guideline, it does not constitute confirmed tax law. Some provisions will be confirmed next year through updated legal clauses, while others may be deleted or changed.The government announcement includes many items, but here we introduce three important updates that you should be aware of. ①CIT ra.. 더보기
Aug 2025 Tax schedule in Korea 1.Interim Corporate income tax filing (8/31)The corporate income tax filing period is every March. Corporations calculate their taxes based on their taxable year’s balance sheet and profit and loss statement (typically from January 1 to December 31).However, before the final filing in March, corporations follow a similar process in August, which is called interim corporate income tax filing.As t.. 더보기

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