Central Government
The
Ministry of Finance, as the highest administrative organ of
taxation, lays down taxation policies, enacts tax laws and
oversees the levy and collection of taxes. Under the Ministry of
Customs Administration, Taxation and Tariff Commission , Data
Processing Center and Public Finance Training Institute. The
Department of Taxation is in charge of the drafting, enacting
and interpreting of inland tax (taxes other than customs duties
and mine concession tax) codes, as well as the overseeing of the
levy and collection of inland taxes. The Department of Customs
Administration is in charge of the drafting, enacting and
interpreting of tariff codes, as well as the overseeing of the
collection of customs duties under the direction of the Minister
of Finance. The Taxation and Tariff Commission is in charge of
the research and planning of inland taxes and customs duties.
The Data Processing Center is in charge of filing, checking and
examining the inland tax data of the whole country. The Public
Finance Training Institute is in charge of the pre-job and
on-the-job training of public finance personne. Except for the
Department of Customs Administration, which is an internal staff
unit of the Ministry of Finance, all the above organs are
directly subordinated to the Ministry of Finance, while serving
at the same time as staff units for the Minister of Finance.
National taxes of the central government are levied in two
broad categories ; customs duties and inland taxes. Customs
duties are responsibility of the Directorate-General of customs
under which are the customs bureaus.
Inland taxes collection comes directly under the central
government. Five National Tax Administrations have been setup to
take charge of the local collection of national taxes: Taipei,
Kaohsiung , and Northern, Central, and Southern Taiwan Province.
The National Tax Administrations may, in view of local
conditions and the volume of business, set up collection offices
as grassroots units of national tax collection.
Metropolitan Government
Metropolitan Tax Bureaus are the branches in charge of the
levying of metropolitan taxes and collecting the business tax on
behalf of the central government. Under the metropolitan taxes
bureau are the metropolitan taxes offices in charge of the
collection of metropolitan taxes and business tax. The tax
offices may, in view of the administrative divisions and
economic development of the area, set up branch offices as
grassroots tax collection units.
County
Governments
County and administratively
equivalent city governments under the provincial government all
have their own tax offices in charge of the collection of county
and city taxes respectively, acting at the same time also as
agents for the collection of provincial taxes. These tax offices
may, in view of the administrative divisions and business
conditions of the area, set up branches as grassroots collection
units. County and city tax offices are subsidiary organs of the
county and city governments concerned, performing tax collection
tasks on orders from the magistrate of the County or the mayor
of the city, and subject also to the direction and supervision
of the Provincial Department of Finance, as well as the Finance
Bureau. The scope of their work covers the collection of
provincial and County taxes.