[Profile] Ahn Deoksu Tapped as National Tax Service Chief Four Months After Taking Seoul Post; Investigation Veteran with Key Posts

Tackled stock market tax evasion, including stock price manipulation, as head of the Investigation Bureau at National Tax Service headquarters

Ahn Deoksu, the newly nominated commissioner of the National Tax Service and chief of the Seoul Regional Tax Office, is regarded as an investigation specialist who has held key posts at the agency's headquarters, including director of the Investigation Bureau. He was nominated for the post of commissioner just four months after taking office at the Seoul Regional Tax Office.

On the 6th, Presidential Chief of Staff Lim Gwang-hyeon announced at a briefing that Ahn, chief of the Seoul Regional Tax Office, had been nominated. "We expect nominee Ahn, a tax administration expert, to realize tax justice by tracking malicious tax evasion and hidden assets," Lim said.

Ahn Deoksu, chief of the Seoul Regional Tax Office, was nominated as commissioner of the National Tax Service on the 6th.

Ahn was born in Busan in 1971. After graduating from Busan Yongin High School and Korea University, he entered public service through the 40th Higher Civil Service Examination. He has served as director of the Investigation Bureau, the Collection and Legal Affairs Bureau, and the Asset Taxation Bureau at the National Tax Service headquarters; director of the Litigation Affairs Bureau and the Fourth Investigation Bureau at the Seoul Regional Tax Office; and director of the First Investigation Bureau at the Central Regional Tax Office. During his tenure as director of the Investigation Bureau at headquarters, he was credited with taking a firm stance against unfair tax evasion in the stock market, including illegal stock-tip chat rooms, tunneling (the diversion of assets and profits), and stock price manipulation schemes.

According to the "October ad hoc property registration disclosures" released by the Government Public Service Ethics Committee, Ahn reported total assets of KRW 1.943 billion. These included buildings valued at KRW 2.166 billion: forest land in Sinan, South Jeolla Province, owned by his spouse, valued at KRW 39 million; a jeonse leasehold right on an apartment in Yeoksam-dong, Seoul, in his name, valued at KRW 1.008 billion; and an apartment in Imun-dong, Seoul, in his spouse's name, valued at KRW 534 million. He also reported deposits totaling KRW 433 million, including KRW 342 million held by his spouse and KRW 82 million in his name, as well as KRW 700 million in rental deposit liabilities held by his spouse.

▲ Busan (55) ▲ Yongin High School and Korea University, Department of Economics ▲ Passed the Higher Civil Service Examination (40th class) ▲ Director of the Environmental and Energy Tax Division, Ministry of Economy and Finance ▲ Director of the Operations Support Division, Seoul Regional Tax Office ▲ Director of the Capital Transactions Management Division, National Tax Service ▲ Director of the Real Estate Tax Division, National Tax Service ▲ Taxpayer Advocate, National Tax Service ▲ Director of the Tax Source Information Division, Investigation Bureau, National Tax Service ▲ Director of the Collection and Litigation Bureau, Busan Regional Tax Office ▲ Seconded to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service ▲ Director of the First Investigation Bureau, Busan Regional Tax Office ▲ Director of the First Investigation Bureau, Central Regional Tax Office ▲ Director of the Fourth Investigation Bureau, Seoul Regional Tax Office ▲ Director of the Litigation Affairs Bureau, Seoul Regional Tax Office ▲ Director of the Asset Taxation Bureau, National Tax Service ▲ Director of the Collection and Legal Affairs Bureau, National Tax Service ▲ Director of the Investigation Bureau, National Tax Service ▲ Chief of the Seoul Regional Tax Office

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