South Korea's tax revenue has continued to increase in the first seven months of this year. <br /> According to the Ministry of Economy and Finance on Tuesday,.... the government received more than 1-hundred-68-point-5 billion U.S. dollars in tax revenue from January to July 2018. <br />This is an increase of more than 19-billion dollars from the same period last year.<br />The amount collected is equivalent to.... 70-point-9 percent of this year's tax revenue target.<br />Income tax revenue was around.... 45-point-6 billion dollars,.... and corporate tax amounted to 37-point-7 billion dollars from January to July.<br />South Korea's consolidated budget balance...which is calculated by subtracting expenditure from tax revenue... recorded a surplus of around 8-point-2 billion dollars. <br />