Every guide for Taiwan, grouped by topic.
For three decades, trade and investment between mainland China and Taiwan has flowed through carefully built plumbing: re-exports …
Get the tax payment certificate (完税证明) from the mainland tax bureau, have the document verified through the Straits Exchange Found…
Potentially, yes — and the popup is exactly why. By clicking "I understand," you acknowledged the bureau's notice about overseas-i…
This timing mismatch is the single most annoying part of cross-strait tax compliance. Taiwan's filing season (May 1–31) closes bef…
They don't want tax on the balance itself — they want to know whether the balance represents untaxed income. CRS reports account i…
Don't panic, and don't lie. A CRS-triggered call is usually an interview (约谈), not a formal audit — yet. Your first job is to find…
The top three: your degree wasn't certified, your proof of days in the GBA city was insufficient, or you applied in more than one …
Yes — talent certification comes first. The GBA subsidy refunds the difference between the individual income tax you actually paid…
The Common Reporting Standard (CRS) ended the era when an offshore bank account was invisible to your home tax authority. All four…
Two gates: your industry must be on the encouraged catalogue, and the company must have substantive operations in Hengqin — real p…
Yes — that's the "澳人澳税" (Macau people, Macau tax) policy. Macau residents working in the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperat…
Thousands of people live in one jurisdiction and earn in the other — Hong Kong professionals working in Shenzhen or Guangzhou, Mai…
Macau's economy lives on cross-border flows — mainland tourists, Hong Kong commuters, and capital moving through the Greater Bay A…
Yes, most likely. Once you exceed 90 days in mainland China within a tax year, the 90-day exemption no longer shields you: employm…
Taiwanese businesses and individuals operating across the Strait face one of Asia's trickiest tax landscapes: two tax systems, no …
Taiwan runs several parallel immigration tracks that are often confused with each other: Hong Kong and Macau residents get a dedic…
Taiwan taxes individuals on a progressive five-bracket system from 5% to 40%, with generous exemptions and deductions that leave m…
Taiwan is unusually friendly to micro-businesses: corporate profits up to NT$120,000 a year pay zero income tax, the smallest vend…
No — not safely. Investment immigration requires the company to operate continuously for at least three years, and you must submit…
Under the regulations governing Hong Kong and Macau residents' residence in Taiwan, investing NT$6 million or more in Taiwan, as r…
Almost certainly yes. Taiwan's investment-immigration renewal review checks whether your company has genuinely operated for three …
Article 17 of the Income Tax Act says the taxpayer deducts "either the standard deduction or the itemized deductions" (擇一減除). The …
Under Article 17 of Taiwan's Income Tax Act, donations by you, your spouse, and your dependents to educational, cultural, public-w…