Article 171Elective Treatment for Taxation of Retirement Income

Notwithstanding the preceding Article, if a Nonresident as prescribed in Article 169 (Tax Base) is paid severance pay or other such compensation (meaning severance pay or other such compensation as prescribed in Article 30, paragraph (1) (Retirement Income); hereinafter the same applies in this Section) that falls under the provisions of Article 161, paragraph (1), item (xii), (c) (Domestic Source Income), the Nonresident may elect to have it deemed that the total amount of the severance pay and other such compensation that the Nonresident is paid in that year by reason of a separation from employment constituting a cause for its payment (or by reason of each separation from employment constituting a cause for payment, if the Nonresident is paid multiple packages of severance pay or other such compensation in the relevant year) has been paid thereto as if to a Resident, and to have income taxes imposed on the severance pay and other such compensation in line with the amount equivalent to taxes imposed when Article 30 and Article 89 (Tax Rates) are applied to the total amount of severance pay and other such compensation that the Nonresident is deemed to have received as a Resident.