According to The Korea Herald, the nation’s tax agency of Korea has pledged to take stern actions against tax evasion practices via virtual assets, including cryptocurrency, and online platforms. The National Tax Service, in its policy briefing before the strategy and finance committee of the National Assembly on Monday, clarified that the kind of new tax evasion is hampering justice in the market as well as fairness in taxation. An official said though Korea’s tax authority has yet to levy taxes on gains on trading of cryptocurrencies, the sort of virtual assets have been in active use for money-laundering. The agency said that online platform operators are also one of the core targets of the tax agency. In addition, the agency said it would look into some allegations of illegitimate intragroup trading among affiliates in the conglomerate sector.