Don’t Have Documents To Prove Income

[Andrew]

@qwert_zuiop

If you didn’t perform any work from within Taiwan, then yes - you can probably declare that income as overseas income and most likely won’t need to pay any taxes on it. Be prepared, though, that the tax office might ask some questions / ask for some proof. So you better have your story straight why your job allows you to stay in Taiwan 183+ days a year while not having to work a single day from within Taiwan.

This is my (uncertain) understanding as well.

(See also my post below and the other posts in this thread where we discussed it previously.)

Taxation of overseas income earned outside Taiwan

Incidentally, the lady in the tax office also had no idea what those fields in the offline software were referring to when I showed her the screenshot in my above post: It’s this kind of thing that makes me unsure of the correctness of info given by the tax office sometimes when it comes to less conventional situations like ours (despite them mostly being helpful and friendly). I did try asking her about the thread topic (work done by Taiwan residents while physically outside Taiwan) while I …