It was belatedly known that group 2PM member and actor Lee Joon-ho paid a large amount of additional fines after undergoing an intensive tax audit by the tax authorities. The agency said, "There is nothing unsavory about taxes."
On the 26th, Lee Joon-ho's agency JYP Entertainment said, "As a result of checking with myself, I would like to inform you that we faithfully responded to the tax investigation conducted by the Seoul Regional Tax Office in September 2023 as part of the irregular planning and tax investigation of corporate artists, and this is not an investigation that was received due to suspicion of tax evasion."
He then explained, "I filed a tax return faithfully with the advice of a tax agent and paid additional taxes due to the difference in perspective between the tax authorities and the tax agent."
In addition, "The irregular tax audit, which was received for the first time in 17 years, complied with the tax authorities' laws and procedures and paid the amount of tax with differences in position, and the deliberate omission of tax is not true. Lee Joon-ho emphasized, "I have been active for a long time since my debut, and I have been faithful to my duty to pay taxes, and I have nothing unsavory about taxes."
Recently, a media outlet reported that in September last year, the Seoul Regional Tax Office's Investigation Bureau 2 conducted an irregular tax investigation against Lee Joon-ho and collected taxes ranging from tens of millions to hundreds of millions of won.
Lee Jun-ho is known as a wealthy man who owns a large number of real estate. In February 2019, the ownership of two officetels in Cheongdam-dong, "The Reverse Cheongdam," was transferred from the trust company. The transaction price of one room was found to be about 1.5 billion won to 1.8 billion won.
This year, under the name of JF Company, a family corporation, it attracted attention by purchasing a commercial building on Apgujeong Rodeo Street in Sinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul for 17.5 billion won in March.
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