Drug purchase by card mileage points subject to taxation

The Tax Tribunal, a government agency under the umbrella of Prime Minister, said Monday it rejected a pharmacist's petition that the current regulation imposing a composite income tax to the use of card mileage points to drug purchase is improper.

The pharmacist purchased medicines worth of 121 million won two times in 2009 and 2010 and settled the bill with the card mileage points. Then the...