KR20200094484A - Tax Refund System and Method of Foreign Tourist - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a tax refund system for a foreign tourist and a method thereof and, more specifically, to a system and a method which provide a refund business with departure information of a foreign tourist for the purpose of a tax refund via a nonprofit foundation under the Ministry of Justice (government) for example, an institution such as a public utility foundation including the Korea Immigration Service Foundation. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the tax refund system for a foreign tourist comprises: a foreign tourist mobile terminal to request a tax refund for an article purchased in Korea from a refund business via a mobile terminal, verify carrying out for the purchase article in a Korea Customs Service server to pay a refund amount to a foreign tourist, and store a mobile passport; a refund business server to request departure verification for a foreign tourist from a nonprofit foundation if a tax refund is requested from the foreign tourist mobile terminal, and receive a departure verification result to automatically pay a refund amount to a foreign tourist; and a nonprofit foundation server which is run by a nonprofit foundation, request tax refund verification of the Korea Customs Service server for a departure verification request of the refund business server, and request departure verification for a foreign tourist from a Justice Ministry server only if a tax refund verification result is notified to transfer a departure verification result to the refund business server.

Description

Tax Refund System and Method of Foreign Tourist}

The present invention relates to a tax refund system and method for foreign tourists, and more specifically, to public information corporations under the Ministry of Justice (government) (for example, public interest foundations including the Korea Immigration Foundation) ) Through the system and method provided to the refund provider.

Recently, as international exchanges have become more active and overseas travel has become more common, shopping at foreign department stores and airport terminals has become more frequent.

When shopping in a foreign country, that is, when a Korean buys a product from a foreign country or when a foreigner comes to Korea and buys a product (item), a certain portion of the tax on the product can be refunded again. have.

Specifically, in Korea, according to the'Special Provisions for VAT and Special Consumption Tax on Foreign Tourists', foreign tourists who bought goods at the 17,793 (as of December 2018) sales office designated by the National Tax Service, such as post-tax-free department stores, as well as duty-free shops before and after duty-free businesses, or After overseas immigration procedures are completed, it is institutionalized to receive tax refunds immediately before departure at the refund counter within the duty-free area of the departure hall.

In the conventional refund procedure for foreign tourists, if a foreign tourist purchases a certain amount of goods at a domestic duty-free shop, a refund slip (confirmation of purchase of goods) is issued along with the purchased items, and within 3 months from the date of purchase. When you leave the country, you confirm the export of the refund slip by presenting the purchased items to the customs officer, and then present the refund slip at the refund counter within the duty-free area of the departure hall and receive the refund amount.

Referring to Figure 1 of the attached drawing, the foreign tourist 10 first purchases a certain amount of goods from a domestic duty-free shop 20 (S1), and the duty-free shop 20 Request a tax refund from the refund operator 30 (S2), and the refund operator 30 registers the tax refund with the customs office 40 (S3), and the customs office 40 purchases goods from the Justice Department 50 A foreign audience (10) requests confirmation of entry (S4).

Accordingly, the Ministry of Justice (50) checks whether the foreign tourist (10) enters the country and notifies the Customs Service (40) of the confirmation result (S5), and if entry is confirmed, the Customs Service (40) registers a tax refund and the registration result To the refund company 30 and the refund company 30 delivers it to the duty free shop 20 afterwards (S6).

Next, the duty free shop (20) provides a receipt (refund slip) for refund to the foreign tourist (10) (S7), and the foreign tourist (10) registers the refund slip with the refund operator (30) upon departure (S8) After presenting the receipt of the confirmation of export to the Korea Customs Service (S9), and after completing the departure procedure, requesting a refund at the refund counter (60) at the departure hall (S10) to the account of the foreign tourist (10) at the refund counter (60) at the departure hall The refund amount is paid (S11).

However, in this conventional refund procedure, the refund operator cannot access the immigration information of the foreigner by accessing the Ministry of Justice, and it is possible to confirm the entry into the country through the Korea Customs Service, but it is impossible to confirm the departure. Installed.

As a result, all procedures for reimbursement were made electronic (online), but as the final step, the reimbursement payment was opened to the refund counter of the departure hall, it caused many problems such as the following.

First, as foreign tourists cannot access the departure information from the refund company, the refund is reported to the Korea Customs Service, but the actual refund is only available at the departure hall.

Second, only a small number of refund operators are installed exclusively at the departure hall, and a vested right of a refund operator who is a private business is generated.

Third, the reimbursement operator pays the customer's rent to the airport and port, and charges the agency fee to the non-refundant installation company due to the additional cost of the reimbursement window installer.

Fourth, in order to protect the vested interests of existing refund operators, cases such as interference with tax refunds of new refund operators are issued, and it is almost impossible for new refund operators to refund airports due to delays in computer connection and billing for high costs. .

Fifth, during the time when a large number of foreign tourists are gathered at the refund counter at the same time, there is a sudden increase in waiting time, abandonment of the refund, or a receipt for rejection, or irregular reception of the employee or delay in departure of the aircraft.

In addition, after foreign tourists canceled the departure procedures by making excuses while receiving the refund amount at the refund counter at the departure hall, they entered the country and intertwined with a post-free shop. There was a problem in that after the purchase of goods was canceled and the cancellation was not reported, the duty-free shops and foreign tourists profited unfairly.

Domestic registered patent publication No. 10-1426520 (2014.08.05.)

The present invention was devised in order to solve various side effects caused by a private business, led by a refund company, where the final departure of foreign tourists is not made electronically in the tax refund that reduces the domestic tax to foreign tourists. Purpose The purpose is to provide a tax refund system and method for foreign tourists that can provide foreign tourists with information about whether or not they are leaving the country by a corporation (for example, the Korea Immigration Foundation).

In addition, another object of the present invention is that foreign tourists take advantage of unfair profits by notifying the immigration office of the immigration office, and specifically inspecting the refunded goods when the foreign tourist re-enters the country after canceling the departure procedure at the departure hall. The aim is to provide a tax refund system and method for foreign tourists who cannot.

The tax refund system of foreign tourists according to an embodiment of the present invention for achieving the above-mentioned object, applies for a tax refund by mobile for the goods purchased in Korea at the refund company server and confirms the export of the purchased goods to the customs server To allow foreign tourists to receive a refund, the mobile terminal for foreign tourists with a mobile passport;

A refund operator server that requests a refund from the foreign tourists to the public interest corporation server when requesting a tax refund from the mobile terminal of the foreign tourists, and automatically pays the refund to the foreign tourists after receiving the results of the departure confirmation;

As a server operated by a public interest corporation, the request for confirmation of departure from the customs office server is requested for confirmation of departure from the refund company server, and only when the result of the tax refund confirmation is notified, the Ministry of Justice server requests confirmation of departure from foreign tourists to confirm departure. A public corporation server that delivers results to a refund company server;

A customs office server that checks a tax refund for a request for confirmation of tax refund of the public corporation server and notifies the public corporation server of the result; And

The Ministry of Justice server that acknowledges departure from the public service corporation server and requests the confirmation of departure for foreign tourists and notifies the public service corporation server of the results:

It is configured to include.

In addition, when the foreign tourists go through the immigration procedures at the departure hall, it is further characterized in that the Ministry of Justice server is provided with an immigration terminal at the departure hall that provides foreign tourists' departure information.

In addition, in the case where the foreign tourist cancels the departure procedure while the refund amount is paid, it is characterized in that the terminal of the immigration office of the departure hall sends a text message to the mobile terminal of the foreign tourist regarding the inspection of goods and cancellation of the refund at the arrival hall of another country.

In addition, when the foreign tourist cancels the departure procedure and proceeds to re-departure while conducting domestic activities, it is characterized in that the public immigration server or the immigration terminal of the departure hall notifies the immigration control server of the immigration office of the other country.

In addition, the mobile passport is characterized in that the passport number, nationality, name, date of birth, gender, passport expiration date, citizenship number, passport photo at least one passport information is recognized and extracted from the real passport, and the information is encrypted and recombined. .

In addition, the server of the public interest corporation is characterized by being a server operated by a public interest organization or a public interest foundation recognized by the Ministry of Justice (government).

A method of refunding a tax for a foreign tourist according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of: (a) applying for a tax refund by mobile to a refund provider server in the foreign tourist mobile terminal;

(b) confirming the export of the purchased goods to the customs office server at the foreign tourist mobile terminal;

(c) requesting the departure of the foreign tourist from the refund company server to the public corporation server;

(d) requesting a tax refund confirmation from the public service corporation server to the customs service server, and confirming whether the tax is refunded by confirming the export of goods from the customs service server, and notifying the public benefit corporation server of the tax refund result;

(e) Request the departure from the Ministry of Justice server only when the tax refund is confirmed at the above-mentioned public interest corporation server, and confirm the departure status from the Ministry of Justice server to inform the public interest corporation server and confirm the departure from the public interest corporation server Passing the result to the refund company server; And

(f) paying a refund amount to the account of the foreign tourist when the departure of the corresponding foreign tourist is confirmed by the refund provider server;

It is configured to include.

In addition, (g) when the foreign tourist after the step (f) to cancel the departure procedure, the immigration control terminal of the departure hall transmits a text to the mobile terminal of the foreign tourist informing about the inspection of goods and cancellation of refund at the arrival hall of another country; Characterized in that to perform more.

And (h) in the step (g), if the departure procedure is canceled while conducting domestic activities and re-departure procedures, the public service corporation server or the terminal of the immigration office of the immigration office informs the server of the immigration office of the immigration office of the other country; Characterized in that to perform more.

According to the solution means of the above-mentioned tasks, the public interest of the tax refund system can be improved by providing the refund business to the refund business electronically by the public interest corporation (for example, the Korea Immigration Foundation). It provides a fair opportunity for customers, minimizes airport congestion, and increases sales at duty-free shops in the departure area.

In addition, if a foreign tourist cancels the departure procedure at the departure hall and then leaves the country again, the immigration office of the arrival hall is notified of the departure, so that the refunded goods can be inspected specifically so that the foreign tourist cannot unfairly take advantage of it.

1 is a view showing a conventional tax refund procedure for foreign tourists.
2 is a block diagram of a tax refund system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flowchart showing a tax refund method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a flow chart when canceling departure procedures in FIG. 3.
5 is an exemplary view of a mobile passport applied to tax refund of the present invention.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings for the embodiment of the present invention will be described the configuration and operation.

It should be noted that the same components among the drawings are represented by the same reference numerals and symbols as much as possible, even if they are displayed on different drawings.

In the following description of the present invention, when it is determined that a detailed description of related known functions or configurations may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description will be omitted.

Also, when a part is said to “include” a certain component, this means that other components may be further included rather than excluding other components, unless otherwise stated.

2 is a block diagram of a tax refund system according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a tax refund method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in Figure 2, the tax refund system according to an embodiment of the present invention, a foreign tourist mobile terminal 100, a refund service provider server 200, a public service corporation server 300, a justice department server 400, a customs service server ( 500) and the immigration control station terminal 600 of the departure hall.

For this, it is possible to further include the arrival gate server 70.

The foreign tourist mobile terminal 100 is a wireless terminal carried by a foreign tourist, and information on the mobile passport 1 shown in FIG. 5 is stored.

As shown in FIG. 5, the mobile passport is an image of a real passport taken through a camera and extracted information about it to be QR coded or encrypted with image information. The mobile passport is displayed on the mobile terminal 100 of a foreign tourist or a passport of a foreign tourist Displayed on the server or terminal requesting authentication.

At this time, the mobile passport 1, passport number, nationality, name, date of birth, gender, passport expiration date, citizenship number, passport photo at least one passport information is recognized and extracted from the real passport, and the information is encrypted and recombined.

Specifically, the mobile passport 1 includes a QR code 11 generated by AES128-CBC encryption of the HASH value of the passport number, name, date of birth, country and passport photo, and a photo notation (2) for displaying the extracted passport photo )Wow; A country notation (3) for marking the extracted country as a text or image; A simple authentication code unit (4) for displaying the simple authentication number (41) generated corresponding to the extracted passport number; This is done so that the identity can be verified only with the digitized code without a physical passport.

At this time, the mobile passport 1 may be converted and displayed on the screen of a mobile terminal of a foreign tourist, such as a smartphone, or output by QR code.

For example, it can be configured to be printed on a paper sticker or carried in a wristband format, and can be verified by simply scanning and reading a QR code.

In addition, when generating the mobile passport 1, the corresponding coupon number is issued together and stored in the information.

Of course, the issued coupon number can be used when purchasing a mobile passport holder's product (for foreign tourists).

Preferably, the mobile passport 1 is generated when generating a mobile passport through an institution that can confirm the validity of passport information.

When a foreign tourist purchases a certain amount of goods at a post duty-free shop in Korea, he/she presents a mobile passport (1) displayed on the mobile terminal 100 of the foreign tourist and issues a refund slip (receipt) along with the purchased items to register it ( S302).

In addition, when leaving the country within 3 months from the date of purchase, the departure procedure is carried out at the immigration office at the departure hall, and the goods are reported to the customs officers to carry out the report procedure (S304).

At this time, the terminal 600 of the immigration office of the departure hall provides the foreign tourists with the departure information to the server 400 of the Ministry of Justice.

Thereafter, the foreign tourist applies to the refund operator server 200 through the mobile terminal 100 of the foreign tourist to apply for a tax refund for the purchased goods by mobile (S306).

At this time, of course, a mobile passport and a refund slip (receipt) are presented to the refund provider server 200.

In addition, the foreign tourist confirms the export of the purchased goods in step S304 to the customs office server 500 through the foreign tourist mobile terminal 100 (S308).

The refund service server 200 that is requested to refund taxes from the foreign tourist mobile terminal 100 requests confirmation of departure from the server 300 operated by a public interest corporation recognized by the Ministry of Justice (S310).

The public interest corporation recognized by the Ministry of Justice is, for example, the Korea Immigration Foundation, which has been designated by the Ministry of Justice as the central operating institution for social integration programs and the operating institution for early adaptation programs.

The public service corporation server 300 requests a tax refund confirmation from the customs service server 500 (S312), and the customs service server 500 checks whether the tax is refunded by confirming the export of the goods and checks the tax refund result. Notify 300 (S314).

The public service corporation server 300 requests a confirmation of departure from the Justice Department server 400 only when the tax refund is confirmed (S316), and the Justice Department server 400 checks the departure status to check the departure status of the public service corporation server ( 300) (S318), and the public service corporation server 300 transmits the result of confirmation of departure to the refund service provider server 200 (S320).

The refund provider server 200 automatically pays the refund amount to the account of the foreign tourist when the departure of the foreign tourist who applied for the tax refund by mobile is confirmed (S322).

In this case, if the departure of foreign tourists is not confirmed, tax refund will not be made.

In addition, if the tax refund is not confirmed in step S316, the public interest corporation server 300 does not request the departure confirmation from the Justice Department server 400 and notifies the refund provider server 200 that the tax refund is not confirmed. No tax refund is made.

In this way, only foreign tourists who purchased goods for tax refunds from public interest corporations (eg, organizations such as the Korea Immigration Foundation) provide electronic departure information to the refund company electronically, and the tax refund processor is provided only by confirming the export of goods. Can be completed, foreign tourists can claim the refund amount at the departure hall via mobile, and the refund operator can pay the refund amount via mobile immediately upon confirmation of departure.

As a result, foreign tourists do not need to visit the refund counter at the departure hall, eliminating congestion at the airport, and shopping at the duty-free shop in the departure area.

On the other hand, in the state in which the tax is refunded through the step S322, it may occur that the departure procedure is canceled due to various circumstances.

As shown in Figure 4, when a foreign tourist goes through the procedure for canceling the departure procedure (S402), the terminal 600 of the immigration office at the departure hall may have the goods inspected at the entry hall of another country at a later time, and at this time, the tax may be inspected. A text is sent to inform that the refund may be canceled (S404).

In addition, after canceling the departure procedure, if you enter the country and travel (travel) and go through the re-entry procedure again, the public service corporation server 300 or the immigration terminal 600 of the departure hall is the server of the immigration office of the immigration office of the foreign immigrant to enter. By notifying (70) of the cancellation of departure (S406), it is possible to request strengthening of the inspection of the goods for which the tax has been refunded.

In this state, if foreign tourists go through the immigration at the immigration office at the arrival hall of another country, they inspect the goods for which the tax is refunded (S408), and if they do not have the goods, the refund is canceled (S410).

Although the technical spirit of the present invention has been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, this merely exemplifies preferred embodiments of the present invention and does not limit the present invention.

In addition, it is obvious that anyone who has ordinary knowledge in this technical field can make various modifications and imitation without departing from the scope of the technical idea of the present invention.

1: Mobile Passport 70: Immigration Server
100: foreign tourist mobile terminal 200: refund provider server
300: public corporation server 400: Ministry of Justice server
500: Korea Customs Service Server 600: Immigration Station Terminal

Claims (9)

A mobile terminal that stores a mobile passport for foreign tourists by requesting a tax refund by mobile for the goods purchased in Korea at the refund company server and confirming the export of the purchased goods to the customs office server;
A refund operator server for requesting tax return from the foreign tourist mobile terminal, requesting confirmation of departure for the foreign tourist from the public interest corporation server, receiving the result of departure confirmation, and automatically paying the refund to the foreign tourist;
As a server operated by a public interest corporation, the request for confirmation of departure from the customs office server is requested for confirmation of departure from the refund company server, and only when the result of the tax refund confirmation is notified, the Ministry of Justice server requests confirmation of departure from foreign tourists to confirm departure. A public corporation server that delivers results to a refund company server;
A customs office server that checks a tax refund for a request for confirmation of tax refund of the public corporation server and notifies the public corporation server of the result; And
The Ministry of Justice server that acknowledges the departure of foreign tourists from the public service corporation server and requests the results to the public service corporation server:
Tax refund system for foreign tourists, including. According to claim 1,
A tax refund system for foreign tourists, characterized in that when the foreign tourists go through the immigration procedures at the departure hall, the Ministry of Justice server further includes an immigration terminal at the departure hall that provides foreign tourists' departure information. According to claim 2,
When the foreign tourist cancels the departure procedure while receiving the refund, the foreign tourist's mobile terminal sends a text to the foreign tourist's mobile terminal to inspect the goods at the immigration hall and cancel the refund. Tax refund system. According to claim 3,
If the foreign tourist cancels the immigration procedure and proceeds to re-departure while conducting domestic activities, the tax of the foreign tourist, characterized in that the public immigration server or the immigration terminal of the departure terminal informs the immigration control server of the immigration office of the other country. Refund system. According to claim 1,
The mobile passport is a passport number, nationality, name, date of birth, gender, passport expiration date, citizenship number, passport photo, at least one passport information is recognized and extracted from the real passport, and encrypted information is recombined by foreign tourists Tax refund system. According to claim 1,
The public benefit corporation server is a government-approved public benefit corporation or a publicly operated foundation server for foreign tourists. (a) applying for a tax refund by mobile to a refund provider server at a foreign tourist mobile terminal for goods purchased in Korea;
(b) confirming the export of the purchased goods to the customs office server at the foreign tourist mobile terminal;
(c) requesting the departure of the foreign tourist from the refund company server to the public service corporation server;
(d) requesting a tax refund confirmation from the public service corporation server to the customs service server, and confirming whether the tax is refunded by confirming the export of goods from the customs service server, and notifying the public benefit corporation server of the tax refund result;
(e) Request the departure from the Ministry of Justice server only when the tax refund is confirmed at the above-mentioned public interest corporation server, and confirm the departure status from the Ministry of Justice server to inform the public interest corporation server and confirm the departure from the public interest corporation server Passing the result to the refund company server; And
(f) paying the refund amount to the account of the foreign tourist when the departure of the corresponding foreign tourist is confirmed by the refund provider server;
Tax refund method for foreign tourists, including. The method of claim 7,
(g) after the step (f), if a foreign tourist cancels the departure procedure, the terminal of the immigration office of the departure hall transmits a text to the mobile terminal of the foreign tourist informing about the inspection of goods and cancellation of refund at the arrival hall of another country; Tax refund method for foreign tourists, characterized in that further performed. The method of claim 8,
(h) in the step (g), if the departure procedure is canceled while conducting domestic activities and re-departure, the public service corporation server or the immigration terminal of the departure terminal notifies the immigration control server of the immigration office of the other country; Tax refund method for foreign tourists, characterized in that further performed.

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