Business Plus

An integrated business support service suite for sole proprietors and small business owners, combining business registration, tax and accounting, finance and payments, and linkage to government suppor

Business Plus (사업자플러스)

Overview

Business Plus (사업자플러스) refers to a family of integrated business support services designed to let sole proprietors and small business owners handle administrative, tax, and financial tasks that recur in running a business in one place. It broadly covers basic administrative procedures such as issuing a business registration certificate, as well as bookkeeping, VAT filing, card and payment fee benefits, and matching with government support programs. Similar brand names are used separately by financial institutions, fintech companies, card issuers, and local government support platforms, so when actually using such a service it is important to check the operating entity and scope of services.

Key Details

Background

In Korea’s business structure, sole proprietorships and small corporations account for the vast majority, and in many cases the representative directly handles filings and evidence management without dedicated accounting or tax staff. Hometax (홈택스), Government24 (정부24), and various support program announcements are scattered, which raises the cost of finding information, and there have been repeated cases of business owners incurring additional taxes after missing filing deadlines. Services in the Business Plus family aim to reduce processing time by bundling these fragmented tasks into a single interface.

Core Features

Business administrative support: Guidance on administrative procedures and automatic preparation of documents for business registration applications, issuance of registration certificates and certificates confirming business closure or suspension, and reports of changes in business type or address.
Tax and accounting management: Collection of sales and purchase evidence, simple and double-entry bookkeeping, assistance with VAT and comprehensive income tax filings, and alerts for tax-saving items.
Finance and payment benefits: Issuance of business-only cards, preferential payment gateway (PG) fees, shorter settlement cycles, and linkage to loan products for small business owners.
Government support program matching: Automatic recommendations of available grants, policy funds, and consulting programs when industry, revenue, and regional conditions are entered.
Management dashboard: Visualization of sales trends, fixed costs, and estimated tax amounts to support cash planning.

Target Users and Procedure

The main users are new founders, one-person businesses, small store operators, and freelancers. The typical procedure proceeds in the order of membership registration and business information verification, entry of industry and size, selection of necessary modules, and linkage with a financial institution or tax agent. In the verification stage, identity is confirmed using the business registration number and representative information, and some services require additional consent for Hometax integration.

Precautions

Tax information provided by the service is for reference only, and final responsibility for filing rests with the business owner. Government support program matching results may also vary depending on announcement requirements and budget conditions, so the original announcement must be checked. In addition, because many services with similar names exist, it is safer to check the privacy policy and the actual provider of financial products.

Latest Trends

In 2024–2025, automatic classification and draft filing functions using generative AI emerged as a core competitive strength of business support services. Features that recognize receipt photos, automatically classify account items, and provide estimated tax amounts in real time became common. In addition, as the scope of mandatory simplified bookkeeping and the convenience of Hometax electronic filing expanded, demand for non-face-to-face tax management increased, and competition for business-only cards and fee benefits through partnerships between card companies and fintechs also intensified. On the policy side, support budgets and policy fund supply for small business owners have expanded, and the effectiveness of condition-based automatic matching is trending upward. With the spread of MyData (마이데이터), personalized cash management services combining financial and national tax data are also appearing, and compliance with security regulations and privacy protection have become major constraints in service design.