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While singer and actor Cha Eun-woo is embroiled in allegations of income tax evasion worth 20 billion won, an incumbent lawyer has expressed his thoughts on the substance of "Eeljip."
Lawyer Kim Jung-ki appeared on YTN radio's "Lawyer Lee Won-hwa's Case X File," which aired on the 30th, and pointed out Cha Eun-woo's alleged tax evasion.
Asked if his family runs an eel restaurant and introduced it to broadcasts or social media like a regular restaurant without informing him, lawyer Kim replied, "It is not a direct tax evasion in itself, but it can be very strong circumstantial evidence that he intentionally tried to conceal the corporation at a later trial."
Attorney Kim also explained, "Hiding a family restaurant and promoting it as a 'single restaurant' is not only a moral criticism that deceived the public, but also a self-proving that the place is just a restaurant, not an actual office."
"This will be a decisive clue to the National Tax Service's claim that the corporation is fake," he said.
Meanwhile, in the first half of last year, Cha Eun-woo was under intense investigation by the Seoul Regional Tax Office on tax evasion charges, and the National Tax Service recently notified about 20 billion won in tax collection.
The National Tax Service judged that tax evasion was carried out through corporation A established by Cha Eun-woo's mother. Cha Eun-woo reportedly worked in a structure in which his agency Fantagio and his mother's corporation A signed a service contract to support entertainment activities, and the profits were divided and attributed to Fantagio, the corporation, and Cha Eun-woo.
The National Tax Service believes that corporation A was deemed inappropriate to perform entertainment management tasks and used a trick to disperse income through a non-substantial "paper company." Cha Eun-woo signed a service contract with a separate family company in addition to his existing agency Fantagio, which was applied with a lower corporate tax rate of more than 20 percentage points instead of the income tax rate of 45 percent.
The core of this controversy is whether corporation A is involved in Cha Eun-woo's profit distribution process. In addition to the fact that the entity of the corporation is actually an "eel restaurant" run by Cha Eun-woo's mother, the controversy has intensified as Cha Eun-woo has introduced the eel restaurant as a "dangol restaurant."
In response, Cha Eun-woo said on social media on the 26th, "I sincerely bow down and apologize for causing concern and disappointment to many people due to various things related to me recently. "With this incident, I am reflecting on myself and deeply reflecting on whether my attitude toward the duty of tax payment as a citizen of the Republic of Korea was strict enough," he said. It was only four days after the controversy erupted.
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