Professional polarization...The top 10% of lawyers and accountants monopolize 80% of them.

Even in professional occupations, income polarization is evident.

Park Sung-hoon, a member of the National Assembly's Strategy and Finance Committee, analyzed the 2023 VAT report payments submitted by the National Tax Service and found that the top 10% of lawyers and accountants accounted for about 80% of the market.

The tax base for the lawyer's job group was 8.72 trillion won, with the top 10% accounting for 77.3% of the total, and the accountant industry's tax base was 5.9671 trillion won, with the top 10% accounting for 79.8% of the total.

Architects and appraisers also accounted for around 70% of the market.In terms of

income, patent attorneys were the undisputed No.

The tax base for patent attorneys based on individuals was 540 million won last year, the highest among eight professional occupations excluding doctors.

It was followed by 449 million won for lawyers and 444 million won for accountants.

Doctors were excluded from the statistics as VAT-free for medical services.