1∼9월 세금 26조원 더 걷혀…법인세 연간목표 초과 달성<br /><br />Government tax revenues rose on-year for a fifth month in a row.<br />According to the Ministry of Economy and Finance, around 18-point-1 billion U.S. dollars have been collected in September.<br />More than 2-and-a-half billion dollars on-year increase. <br />The ministry attributed the spike to the boom in semiconductor sales and more corporate profits.<br />For the first nine months of this year, total revenue amounts to around 206-point-1 billion dollars,... up 23-and-a-half billion from the same period last year. <br />The amount collected is equivalent to... more than 87 percent of this year's tax revenue target. <br />