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D&A Successfully Hosts Briefing Session on the 2026 Tax Reform Plan
On September 2, D&A LLC successfully hosted a briefing session on the 2026 Tax Reform Plan.
Approximately 30 corporate representatives attended the session, showing keen interest in the key provisions of the 2026 Tax Reform Plan and the procedures to follow.
The event opened with welcoming remarks by Managing Partner Kyu Chul LEE, followed by an opening address by Attorney Hyung Ju PARK, who also moderated the event. Partner Woo Seok CHOI then delivered a presentation on “Proposed Revisions to the Corporate Inheritance Tax Deduction System and Response Strategies,” while Partner Ji Hoon WOO spoke on “Proposed Revisions to the Taxation of Treasury Shares and Response Strategies.”
After completing his training at the Judicial Research and Training Institute, Partner Woo Seok CHOI worked at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, where he handled various tax matters, including individual income tax and corporate income tax. He was also seconded to the Supreme Court as a research judge in the Tax Division. He subsequently served as Head of the Tax Interpretation Coordination Team and Director of the Customs Cooperation Division.
Partner Ji Hoon WOO has served as an advisory attorney to the Seoul Regional Tax Office and Jungbu Regional Tax Office, a member of the Tax Accountant Qualification Review Committee at the National Tax Service, and an instructor at the Tax Law Training Institute of the Seoul Bar Association. After serving as a research judge in the Supreme Court’s Tax Division, he joined D&A earlier this year.
Participants commented that the session provided a valuable opportunity to gain a clear understanding of the key changes under the tax reform and helped them develop practical business succession and tax strategies tailored to their respective circumstances and business needs.
D&A’s Tax Practice Group provides specialized legal services through a team of tax attorneys and certified public accountants, as well as professionals with extensive practical experience at institutions including the National Tax Service, Korea Customs Service, and Tax Tribunal. In addition to a broad range of tax services covering national and local taxes, international taxation, and customs, the PG provides specialized advice on tax issues arising from corporate M&A, restructuring, domestic and overseas investments, and financial transactions, offering optimal solutions to support clients’ key business decisions.
In addition, D&A’s Family Office Center, in collaboration with Accounting Firm D&A, provides integrated, one-stop legal and tax services covering the entire process—from assessing clients’ assets and designing strategic structures to implementation support, post-transaction management, and responses to tax audits, tax appeals, and administrative litigation. Professionals with backgrounds in the courts, prosecution service, Ministry of Economy and Finance, National Tax Service, and accounting firms work together as one team to provide customized solutions, comprehensively designing valuation, evidentiary, and transaction structures tailored to each client’s circumstances.