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Why does Korea's year-end settlement still have a standard tax-credit floor instead of forcing every employee into an itemized-document marathon?
Employees in Korea often imagine year-end settlement as a giant contest to submit every possible receipt and certificate. Please explain why the system still has a standard tax-credit floor, why that does not make document gathering pointless, and why the standard route is better understood as a compliance baseline than as the clever default for everyone.
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