EP-4742142-A1 - FOREIGNER DEPARTURE SYSTEM INCLUDING TAX REFUNDING AND METHOD THEREOF

EP4742142A1EP 4742142 A1EP4742142 A1EP 4742142A1EP-4742142-A1

Abstract

The present invention relates to a foreigner departure system including tax refunding and a method thereof and, more specifically, to a foreigner departure system including tax refunding and a method thereof, wherein a tax refund procedure is performed in kiosk terminals provided on the land side and the air side of an airport, respectively, thus making it possible to reduce the time or manpower required for the scan input of an export confirmation receipt. The foreigner departure system including tax refunding according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a first kiosk terminal that is installed on the land side of an airport and authenticates a passport, and that scans a refund statement receipt of a foreign tourist to perform a tax refund procedure for purchased products; a second kiosk terminal that is installed on the air side of the airport and authenticates the passport, and that outputs tax refund information according to the result of the tax refund procedure; an operation server which receives passport information or the refund statement receipt from the first and second kiosk terminals and requests a confirmation of the departure of the foreign tourist or export of the purchased products while transmitting the passport information or refund statement receipt to an agency server, transmits the confirmation result to the first and second kiosk terminals, requests tax refund information while transmitting the confirmation result to a refund business server, and transmits the result of the request to the first and second kiosk terminals; an institution server that confirms the departure of the foreign tourist or export of the purchased products; and the refund business server that confirms the tax refund information and sends the refunded amount to an account of the foreign tourist.

Inventors

JANG, YANG HO

Assignees

Lordsystem Co., Ltd.

Dates

Publication Date: 20260513
Application Date: 20240702

Claims (15)

A foreigner departure system including a tax refund, the foreigner departure system comprising: a first kiosk terminal installed on a land side of an airport to authenticate a passport, and configured to scan a refund statement receipt of a foreign tourist to perform a tax refund procedure for purchased goods; a second kiosk terminal installed on an air side of the airport to authenticate the passport, and configured to output tax refund information according to a result of the tax refund procedure; an operation server configured to receive passport information or the refund statement receipt from the first and second kiosk terminals to request confirmation of departure of the foreign tourist or export of the purchased goods while transmitting the passport information or refund statement receipt to an institution server, transmit a result of the confirmation to the first and second kiosk terminals, request the tax refund information while transmitting the passport information or the refund statement receipt to a refund business operator server, and transmit a result of the request to the first and second kiosk terminals; the institution server configured to confirm the departure of the foreign tourist or the export of the purchased goods in response to the request of the operation server, and transmit a result of the confirmation to the operation server; and the refund business operator server configured to confirm the tax refund information in response to the request of the operation server to transmit the tax refund information to the operation server, and pay a refund amount to an account of the foreign tourist when the departure of the foreign tourist is confirmed.
The foreigner departure system of claim 1, wherein the first kiosk terminal or the second kiosk terminal compares a photograph on a passport with a photograph directly captured of a passport holder so as to determine whether a person in the photograph on the passport is the same as the passport holder (the same person), and an image is captured while instructing the foreign tourist to take a specific pose or facial expression, and it is determined whether the foreign tourist is the same as the passport holder by using the captured image (mission photograph).
The foreigner departure system of claim 1, wherein the first kiosk terminal scans a barcode or a QR code of the refund statement receipt to transmit information included in the barcode or the QR code to the operation server.
A foreigner departure system including a tax refund, the foreigner departure system comprising: a mobile terminal held by a foreign tourist, in which the mobile terminal has a mobile passport embedded therein, executes a refund and authentication application ("refund application") to perform a tax refund procedure for purchased goods in association with the mobile passport when the mobile terminal is located on a land side of an airport, and executes the refund application to output tax refund information according to a result of the tax refund procedure when the mobile terminal is located on an air side; an operation server configured to receive mobile passport information from the mobile terminal to request confirmation of departure of the foreign tourist or export of the purchased goods in association with the mobile passport while transmitting the mobile passport information to an institution server, transmit a result of the confirmation to the mobile terminal, request the tax refund information while transmitting the passport information or the refund statement receipt to a refund business operator server, and transmit a result of the request to the mobile terminal; the institution server configured to confirm the departure of the foreign tourist or the export of the purchased goods in association with the mobile passport in response to the request of the operation server, and transmit a result of the confirmation to the operation server; and the refund business operator server configured to confirm the tax refund information in response to the request of the operation server to transmit the tax refund information to the operation server, and pay a refund amount to an account of the foreign tourist when the departure of the foreign tourist is confirmed.
The foreigner departure system of claim 4, further comprising a beacon provided on each of the land side and the air side to automatically execute the refund application of the mobile terminal by transmitting location information to the mobile terminal.
The foreigner departure system of claim 5, wherein, when the refund application is activated, a tax refund target list is organized and output to the mobile terminal, and when an amount of the tax refund target list exceeds a limit of a tax refund amount, the amount of the tax refund target list is adjusted in accordance with the limit of the tax refund amount by adding or deleting lists to or from the tax refund target based on selection of the foreign tourist.
The foreigner departure system of claim 4 or 5, wherein the mobile terminal compares a photograph on the mobile passport with a photograph directly captured of a mobile terminal holder so as to determine whether a person in the photograph on the mobile passport is the same as mobile terminal holder (the same person), and an image is captured while instructing the foreign tourist to take a specific pose or facial expression, and it is determined whether the foreign tourist is the same as the mobile terminal holder by using the captured image (mission photograph).
The foreigner departure system of claim 1 or 4, wherein, in a case where it is determined that exported purchased goods are expensive items or luxury items when the departure of the foreign tourist is confirmed, the operation server requests an arrival hall operation server of a country where the foreign tourist wants to enter to confirm import of specific purchased goods.
A foreigner departure method including a tax refund, the foreigner departure method comprising: (A) starting a tax refund procedure for purchased goods of a foreign tourist by using a first kiosk terminal installed on a land side of an airport upon departure of the foreign tourist; (B) confirming a passport (including a mobile passport) of the foreign tourist and scanning a barcode or a QR code included in a refund statement receipt, by the first kiosk terminal; (C) when information about the passport and a refund statement (receipt) is transmitted from the first kiosk terminal to the operation server, transmitting the information to a refund business operator server to request confirmation of the tax refund for the purchased goods, and transmitting the information to an institution server to request confirmation of export of the purchased goods, by the operation server; (D) transmitting a result of the confirmation for the export of the purchased goods, which is transmitted by the institution server, and a tax refund list for the purchased goods, which is transmitted by the refund business operator server, to the first kiosk terminal, by the operation server; (E) displaying the tax refund list on a display unit when the export of the purchased goods is confirmed by the first kiosk terminal; (F) confirming the passport of the foreign tourist by using a second kiosk terminal installed on an air side of the airport after the foreign tourist passes through a departure hall; (G) when the passport information is transmitted from the second kiosk terminal to the operation server, transmitting the passport information from the operation server to the refund business operator server to request the tax refund for the purchased goods, and transmitting the passport information to the institution server to request confirmation of the departure of the foreign tourist; (H) transmitting a result of the confirmation of the departure of the foreign tourist, which is transmitted by the institution server, and the tax refund information about the purchased goods, which is transmitted by the refund business operator server, from the operation server to the second kiosk terminal; (I) displaying the tax refund information on a display unit by the second kiosk terminal; and (J) when the departure of the foreign tourist is confirmed, transmitting the confirmation of the departure from the operation server to the refund business operator server, and paying a refund amount to an account of the foreign tourist by the refund business operator server.
The foreigner departure method of claim 9, wherein in step (B), the first kiosk terminal compares a photograph on a passport with a photograph directly captured of a passport holder so as to determine whether a person in the photograph on the passport is the same as the passport holder (the same person), and an image is captured while instructing the foreign tourist to take a specific pose or facial expression, and it is determined whether the foreign tourist is the same as the passport holder by using the captured image (mission photograph), so that when the foreign tourist is the same as the passport holder, step (C) is performed.
A foreigner departure method including a tax refund, the foreigner departure method comprising: (A') transmitting mobile passport information to an operation server by executing a refund and authentication application (refund application) of a mobile terminal having a mobile passport embedded therein when the foreign tourist enters a land side of an airport for departure; (B') transmitting the mobile passport information from the operation server to a refund business operator server to request confirmation of the tax refund for purchased goods in association with the mobile passport, and transmitting the mobile passport information to an institution server to request confirmation of export of the purchased goods; (C') transmitting a result of the confirmation for the export of the purchased goods in association with the mobile passport, which is transmitted by the institution server, and a tax refund list for the purchased goods in association with the mobile passport, which is transmitted by the refund business operator server, from the operation server to the mobile terminal; (D') displaying the tax refund list on a screen when the export of the purchased goods in association with the mobile passport is confirmed by the mobile terminal; (E') transmitting the mobile passport information to the operation server by executing the refund application of the mobile terminal having the mobile passport embedded therein when the foreign tourist enters an air side of the airport after passing through a departure hall; (F') transmitting the mobile passport information from the operation server to the refund business operator server to request the tax refund for the purchased goods in association with the mobile passport, and transmitting the mobile passport information to the institution server to request confirmation of departure of the foreign tourist; (G') transmitting a result of the confirmation of the departure of the foreign tourist, which is transmitted by the institution server, and tax refund information about the purchased goods in association with the mobile passport, which is transmitted by the refund business operator server, from the operation server to the mobile terminal; (H') displaying the tax refund information on the screen by the mobile terminal; and (I') when the departure of the foreign tourist is confirmed, transmitting the confirmation of the departure from the operation server to the refund business operator server, and paying a refund amount to an account of the foreign tourist by the refund business operator server.
The foreigner departure method of claim 11, wherein, in step (A'), the mobile terminal compares a photograph on the mobile passport with a photograph of a mobile terminal holder, which is directly captured, so as to determine whether a person in the photograph on the mobile passport is the same as mobile terminal holder (the same person), and an image is captured while instructing the foreign tourist to take a specific pose or facial expression, and it is determined whether the foreign tourist is the same as the mobile terminal holder by using the captured image (mission photograph), so that when the foreign tourist is the same as the passport holder, step (B') is performed.
The foreigner departure method of claim 11, wherein, in step (A') or (E'), the refund application of the mobile terminal is automatically executed by transmitting location information to the mobile terminal using a beacon installed in the land side or the air side.
The foreigner departure method of claim 13, wherein, when the refund application is activated, a tax refund target list is organized and output to the mobile terminal, and when an amount of the tax refund target list exceeds a limit of an tax refund amount, the amount of the tax refund target list is adjusted in accordance with the limit of the tax refund amount by adding or deleting lists to or from the tax refund target based on selection of the foreign tourist.
The foreigner departure method of claim 9 or 11, wherein, in a case where it is determined that exported purchased goods are expensive items or luxury items when the departure of the foreign tourist is confirmed, the operation server requests an arrival hall operation server of a country where the foreign tourist wants to enter to confirm import of specific purchased goods.

Description

Technical Field The present invention relates to a foreigner departure system including a tax refund and a method thereof, and more specifically, to a foreigner departure system including a tax refund and a method thereof, in which kiosk terminals are provided on a land side and an air side of an airport, respectively, to allow the kiosk terminals to perform a tax refund procedure, thereby reducing a time or manpower required for a scan input of an export confirmation receipt. Background Art Recently, as international exchanges have become more active and foreign travel has become more common, shopping has become more common in foreign department stores and airport terminals. When shopping in a foreign country, that is, when a Korean purchases goods in a foreign country or when a foreigner comes to Korea to buy goods, a certain portion of the tax imposed on the goods may be refunded again. When foreign tourists go shopping in Korea, foreigners are not obligated to pay taxes, so that the foreigners receive a refund of certain taxes, such as value-added taxes included in the price of goods. In addition to duty-free stores, which are tax-free stores, foreign tourists who purchase goods at stores designated by the National Tax Service, such as department stores, which are tax refund stores, may receive tax refunds before the departure at a value-added tax refund counter in a bonded area after completing a departure procedure at the airport upon the departure. In a conventional refund procedure for foreign tourists, when a foreign tourist purchases goods of a certain amount or more at a domestic tax refund store, a refund statement (goods purchase confirmation form) is issued along with the purchased goods, and within 3 months from the date of purchasing the goods, the foreign tourist presents the purchased goods to a customs employee upon the departure to confirm the export of the refund statement, and presents the refund statement at the refund counter in the duty-free area of the departure hall to receive the refund. Specifically describing the refund procedure with reference to FIG. 1, first, when a foreign tourist 10 purchases goods of a certain amount or more at a domestic tax refund store 20 (S1), the tax refund store 20 requests a tax refund from a refund business operator 30 (S2), the refund business operator 30 registers the tax refund with a Customs Service 40 (S3), and the Customs Service 40 requests a Ministry of Justice 50 to confirm entry of the foreign tourist 10 who has purchased the goods (S4). Accordingly, the Ministry of Justice 50 confirms the entry of the foreign tourist 10 and notifies the Customs Service 40 of a result of the confirmation (S5), and when the entry is confirmed, the Customs Service 40 registers the tax refund and notifies the refund business operator 30 of a result of the registration, and the refund business operator 30 transmits the result of the registration to the tax refund store 20 (S6). Next, the tax refund store 20 provides a receipt for refund (refund statement) to the foreign tourist 10 (S7). Thereafter, the foreign tourist 10 registers the refund statement with the refund business operator 30 upon departure (S8), presents an export confirmation receipt to the Customs Service 40 (S9), and when the foreign tourist 10 requests a refund to a departure hall refund counter 60 after completing the departure procedure (S10), a refund amount is paid to an account of the foreign tourist 10 at the departure hall refund counter 60 (S11). However, in the conventional refund procedure as described above, since the customs employee has to scan a barcode or a QR code included in the export confirmation receipt one by one in step S9 of presenting the export confirmation receipt upon departure, it takes a lot of time and manpower to input the scan, and in a time period when large numbers of foreign tourists gather simultaneously, a sharp increase in waiting time may result in abandonment of tax refunds, fraudulent refund claims by the employee using a rejected refund receipt, or delays in aircraft departure. Disclosure Technical Problem The present invention has been made in an effort to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a foreigner departure system including a tax refund and a method thereof, in which kiosk terminals are provided on a land side and an air side of an airport, respectively, to allow the kiosk terminals to perform a tax refund procedure, thereby reducing a time or manpower required for a scan input of an export confirmation receipt, and even in a time period when large numbers of foreign tourists gather simultaneously, it is possible to prevent abandonment of a tax refund by reducing a waiting time, and prevent in advance fraudulent refund claims by an employee using a rejected refund receipt or a delay in aircraft departure. In addition, another object of the present invention is to provide a foreigner departure system i