SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea slammed the European Union (EU)’s decision on Wednesday to put Asia’s fourth-largest economy on a new EU blacklist of tax havens, saying that its inclusion is “not in accordance with international standards” and poses the risk of “violating taxation sovereignty.” On Tuesday, the EU disclosed a blacklist [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s large businesses have continued to increase their direct investments in overseas tax havens, adding to concerns about possible tax evasion attempts, a lawmaker said Friday. Conglomerates here remitted a total of 441.5 trillion won to such countries as Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and Panama between 2011 and [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Lotte Group, South Korea’s fifth-largest family-controlled conglomerate, operates some four dozen overseas units in suspected tax havens, data showed Thursday, in a potential blow to the embattled group under investigation for alleged wrongdoing. According to the data by corporate tracker Korea 20000 Corporate Research Institute, 46 of Lotte’s 256 [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 15, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean conglomerates and financial service firms have almost doubled their presence in Hong Kong since the global financial debacle in 2008. However, according to Yonhap News Agency, European firms and financial companies are moving to leave the “Pearl of Asia” in droves, raising concerns among Korean companies [...]