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petrolfire
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yamahuh
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You can claim back the tax you've been charged the following year, regardless of when you arrive. The difference is in the rate that you are supposedly charged and how long you are charged that rate.
The article you linked to actually clearly states this:
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The obvious impact of all this is that the very BEST time to arrive & start a job in Taiwan is on January 1st. This may have been what the tax folks were driving at when they revised the regulations.
However you will probably find that every school has a different interpreattion of the tax rules. For example my last school charged approximately 3% for the entire year and my current one is charging around 9% for 6 months, after which I pay no further tax.
Like most rules here - they're made to be bent
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Pretentious Parrot
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You obviously are a rare exception to the rule.
Anyone with an ARC (no matter how many years you have lived in Taiwan) will be taxed at 20% from January to the end of June. The second half of the year you probably will be taxed at 6%.
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You can claim back the tax you've been charged the following year, regardless of when you arrive. The difference is in the rate that you are supposedly charged and how long you are charged that rate.
The article you linked to actually clearly states this:
Interpretation
The obvious impact of all this is that the very BEST time to arrive & start a job in Taiwan is on January 1st. This may have been what the tax folks were driving at when they revised the regulations.
However you will probably find that every school has a different interpreattion of the tax rules. For example my last school charged approximately 3% for the entire year and my current one is charging around 9% for 6 months, after which I pay no further tax.
Like most rules here - they're made to bent |
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yamahuh
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| Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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I have yet to work anywhere where anything like that was enforced.
That's not to say it couldn't / shouldn't be, but in 4 different schools in Taiwan I have paid - 10% for 6 months followed by nothing; 0% for the entire year, 3% for the entire year and (currently) 9% for 6 months followed by nothing.
From meeting and talking to people in the same field I'm not sure my situation is particularly rare at all... |
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Shimokitazawa
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 7:57 am Post subject: |
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| Pretentious Parrot wrote: |
You obviously are a rare exception to the rule.
Anyone with an ARC (no matter how many years you have lived in Taiwan) will be taxed at 20% from January to the end of June. The second half of the year you probably will be taxed at 6%.
| yamahuh wrote: |
You can claim back the tax you've been charged the following year, regardless of when you arrive. The difference is in the rate that you are supposedly charged and how long you are charged that rate.
The article you linked to actually clearly states this:
Interpretation
The obvious impact of all this is that the very BEST time to arrive & start a job in Taiwan is on January 1st. This may have been what the tax folks were driving at when they revised the regulations.
However you will probably find that every school has a different interpreattion of the tax rules. For example my last school charged approximately 3% for the entire year and my current one is charging around 9% for 6 months, after which I pay no further tax.
Like most rules here - they're made to bent |
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But there are exceptions and they are not rare!
It seems to be there is a government directive for schools to charge foreign instructors the 20% for the first half of the year. However, I've asked around and the teachers I talked to, all have been here several years or more, report that they are not taxed at 20% for the first half of the year.
But, there was one teacher who told me that a few years ago that the school had sent out an announcement that they would be taking 20% tax from from those teachers who had been at the school for more than a year. The teachers who had been at the school for more than a year protested and the school decided not to tax them at 20%.
It seems to be up to the school and is case-by-case, like many other situations in Taiwan. |
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JZer
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| yamahuh wrote: |
You can claim back the tax you've been charged the following year, regardless of when you arrive. The difference is in the rate that you are supposedly charged and how long you are charged that rate.
The article you linked to actually clearly states this:
Interpretation
The obvious impact of all this is that the very BEST time to arrive & start a job in Taiwan is on January 1st. This may have been what the tax folks were driving at when they revised the regulations.
However you will probably find that every school has a different interpreattion of the tax rules. For example my last school charged approximately 3% for the entire year and my current one is charging around 9% for 6 months, after which I pay no further tax.
Like most rules here - they're made to be bent |
You can file a tax claim any time of the year but if you are in Taiwan for less than 183 days you will be taxed 18% and there is no refund. The rate only drops to 5% or 6% if you stay over 183 days in any give year. |
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