You do? In the past four years, I’ve made a list of what’s needed to renew my ARC. Every year I come in with everything from the year before, only to be missing one thing and holding two extras. My tax forms have never been one of them. I genuinely believe they make up the rules just to make sure one can never reapply without a hassle. Looking forward to APRC…
To answer OP, you can ask them. My school always calls me up on a Saturday morning sometime in mid March to ask if I’ll be in the country long enough. It’s usually because they haven’t been withholding the 18% since Jan 1 and panicking. One would think they’d remember the following year, but they don’t. Point is, worst thing that could happen is you ask the accountant nicely and they say no.
How long must you wait before claiming back the excess of tax payment? I read about May somewhere up-thread, but is that in the current or future year?
It’s more like July/August of the following year, because the tax refund comes a couple months after you submit your tax return. So you would have to wait a year and a half to get the 18% withheld in January. It’s a massive farce because they don’t pay you any interest on it. The government are essentially able to invest that money as they please and earn money from our withholdings, although not sure if they do anything other than keep it in a bank account. Either way we are losing money from it.
Government currently owes me about $91,000.
Would be interesting to see how they classify leaving Taiwan permanently. Could we just say we are leaving every year and get it back early?
Another question is, does the law allow companies to withhold 18% for NWOHR (nationals without household registration)? Or is there no law that actually details the cans and cannots of withholding tax, and companies can just decide themselves how much they want to over each individual employee? If there is such a law, I’d love to see it.
over each individual employee? If there is such a law, I’d love to see it.