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2020 Annual Corporate Income Tax Return Filing (due filing by March 31, 2021 for December 31 fiscal year-end)

12/29/2020
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l 2020 Annual Corporate Income Tax and Local Income Tax Returns Filing Deadlines

Under the CITL, a company having a fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 should file the 2020 annual corporate income tax return by March 31, 2021 together with necessary tax payments.

In this connection, we summarized the due dates of tax return filing and necessary tax payment related to corporate income tax and local income tax as follows:

In principle, annual/interim corporate income tax and local income tax returns are due filing together with tax payment as given below:

Tax returns

Filing due dates

Annual corporate income tax return

- Within 3 months from the fiscal year-end

Interim corporate income tax return

- Within 2 months after the first 6 months of each fiscal year

Annual local income tax return

- Within 4 months after the fiscal year-end

If the annual/interim corporate income taxes payable are over Won 10 million, companies are allowed to make tax payments in 2 installments as below:

Tax returns

Payment due dates

Annual corporate income tax return

- 1st installment (*)

- Within 3 months from the fiscal year-end

- 2nd installment (*)

- Within 1 month from the end of the filing due date (within 2 months for a small and medium-sized company)

Interim corporate income tax return

- 1st installment (*)

- Within 2 months from the end of interim period

- 2nd installment (*)

- Within 1 month from the end of the filing due date (within 2 months for a small and medium-sized company)

(*) The amount of installments shall be determined as follows:

If total taxes payable is:

Installment payments can be

broken down as below:

Over Won 10 million

~ up to 20 million

1st installment

10 million

2nd installment

Excess over 10 million

Over Won 20 million

1st installment

50% or more of taxes payable

2nd installment

Remaining balance

(**) Installment payment is not applicable for local income tax.