Lee Hanee's Agency Responds to Reports of High-Intensity Tax Audit

By Soyoon, Ahn

Feb 17, 2025

Lee Hanee's Agency Responds to Reports of High-Intensity Tax Audit
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While it was belatedly known that actress Lee Ha-nui paid a large amount of additional fines after undergoing a high-intensity tax audit, the agency expressed its position.

Lee Ha-nee's agency, TEAMHOPE, said on the 17th that `Lee Ha-nee faithfully complied with the tax investigation conducted by the Seoul Regional Tax Office as part of the non-regular integration of corporate artists.'

Lee Ha-nui has faithfully fulfilled his duty to pay taxes by complying with laws and procedures under the advice of his tax agent. This tax was paid in full as an additional tax due to differences in perspectives between the tax authorities and tax agents, and had nothing to do with deliberate omission of taxes.




Earlier in the day, Field News reported that Lee Ha-nee was collected about 6 billion won in taxes after undergoing an intensive tax audit by the National Tax Service in September last year. According to reports, the Gangnam Tax Office detected tax evasion circumstances between Lee Ha-nee and Human Entertainment in the process of conducting an irregular tax investigation into Lee Ha-nee's former agency, Human Entertainment, in 2022.

Lee Ha-nee signed an exclusive contract with Human Entertainment in 2014 and has been in the company for 10 years until April last year. have continued independent activities without an agency for about seven months since In January, a new nest was built in Timhoff.

After establishing a private corporation, Hani Co., Ltd. in 2015, Lee Ha-nee changed the name of the corporation to Lee Sang-yoon Co., Ltd. and Hope Project Co., Ltd. Lee Ha-nee served as the CEO of the corporation until 2023 and is currently listed only as an in-house director. The CEO is known to be Lee Ha-nee's husband.




Meanwhile, Lee Ha-nee appeared in MBC's Friday-Saturday drama 'Flower Blooming at Night' and SBS's Friday-Saturday drama 'Fiery Death 2' and performed enthusiastically. The next film is Roh Hee-kyung's new work 'Slowly and Intense ' (tentative).

Lee Ha-nee's agency's official position.

Hello, I'm Lee Ha-nee's agency, TEAMHOPE.




I would like to inform you of the official position regarding the tax investigation of our actor Lee Ha-nee.

Lee Ha-nee faithfully responded to the tax audit conducted by the Seoul Regional Tax Office as part of the non-regular integration planning tax audit of corporate business artists.

Lee Ha-nee has faithfully fulfilled her tax obligations by complying with laws and procedures under the advice of her tax agent. We would like to inform you that this tax has been paid in full as an additional tax due to differences in perspective between the tax authorities and tax agents, and has nothing to do with deliberate tax omission.

Thank you.



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