1. The plaintiffs' claims are dismissed.

2. The costs of lawsuit are assessed against the plaintiffs.

Details of the disposition

On March 29, 2017, the Plaintiffs filed an information disclosure request with the Defendant on the amount of quarterly value-added tax reduction, the number of payment, the number of working days, the amount of payment, the amount of payment, the total amount of payment, and the amount of the reduced amount of tax on which signatures and seals are stated, from January to February 2016, 2017, as taxi transport business operators operating taxi transport business in Incheon City, and B were taxi drivers working in the Plaintiff A Limited Partnership and the Incheon Headquarters of the National taxi Reform Workers’ Union.

On March 31, 2017, pursuant to Article 11(3) of the Official Information Disclosure Act (hereinafter “Information Disclosure Act”), the Defendant notified the Plaintiffs of the above request for information disclosure, and the Plaintiffs requested non-disclosure.

On April 25, 2017, the Defendant, on the ground that “B’s claim for disclosure of information is for public interest purposes to verify whether the refund of value-added tax is accurately calculated and paid, and it is deemed necessary to establish the order of sound passenger transport service,” was excluded from the subject of disclosure on the ground that the Plaintiff’s future transport service company did not have the details of value-added tax reduction from January to February 2, 2012, and the Plaintiff’s highest taxi company did not have the details of first and second years in 2012.

In accordance with Article 21 (2) of the Information Disclosure Act, a decision to disclose information on the same day was made, and the above decision was notified to the plaintiffs.

Plaintiff

On April 27, 2017, an identity transportation company and a limited partnership company were dissatisfied with the instant disposition and filed an objection with the Defendant. However, on May 18, 2017, the Plaintiffs filed an administrative appeal seeking cancellation of the instant disposition with the Central Administrative Appeals Commission. On June 5, 2017, the Central Administrative Appeals Commission revoked the “signing and sealing” portion of the said decision and dismissed the remainder of the appeal.