Lacey Fox
Joined: 03 Aug 2009
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 Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 6:17 pm Post subject: Paying taxes for subcontract work outside of Korea |
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This is an obscure question but I'm hoping someone might have some information about it. I'm not living in Korea right now. I used to live there. While there, I signed a contract to do some work for a Korean company.
I received my first payment from them while outside of the country last week and noticed 100,000 won (out of a total of 3 million) was missing. When I asked about it, this is the response I got:
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I called the 6th floor accounting team and was told that
every independent writer should pay 3.3% tax by law. they said in your first payment "1,000,000 Won"
you paied 3.3% also. They say. if the writer is a person who stays abroad, he or she has to pay more tax than that.
But since when you made a contract, you were here. you are to pay 3.3%. That is what I am told by far. |
It is true that taxes were deducted from the initial payment I received, but I was in the country at that time. This current deduction doesn't make any sense to me. If I'm not living in the country, I still have to pay taxes? And foreign contract workers should actually pay more than that?
I don't want to damage relations with the company by being insistent on the matter when it really is a small amount, but at the same time I've learned that, to put it nicely, Korean companies often do not handle taxes properly with foreign employees. Would I be amiss to press the issue, perhaps by asking for documents verifying that the money they deduct from my payments is actually being submitted to the government for tax purposes? |
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