Thanks for this extra context. I was not aware of that other thread. The problem you summarized (I haven’t read that other thread) is a matter for the Labor Bureau to—hopefully—address. Filing taxes is a Tax Bureau matter, of course. Does one need to be settled before the other?
EDIT: OK I see you have anticipated my question, and answered it. I doubt anything at the Labor Bureau gets resolved that quickly, but who knows? Maybe it is possible.
Guy
No, it doesn’t need to be and they could also file first and then do a correction later, but given they have a bit of time left before the tax deadline personally I would wait at least 7–10 days to see whether the WDA responds in time to the message I sent them (discussed in the other thread).
Main point is I’m not sure whether their employer has been handling things correctly with the tax-exempt meal allowance and how they’ve been declaring their salary and calculating the other deductions. Like you say, if and when they need to get the Labor Bureau involved that’ll likely take longer than May 31 anyway, at which point OP should probably file… but given that it looks like all they’ll get from the tax office is a bill for outstanding taxes* I don’t see much advantage to filing earlier than they need to and it’s probably preferable to hope for some clarification of the other issues first.
[* This is assuming that OP’s company handled their 2023 income in the same way as the recent payslip from this year posted above, but one step at a time.]
Maybe a good idea for @Mamoon at the moment is to log in to the online tax filing system to see what their employer actually filed for 2023 and how it matches up with their payslips. I guess this won’t show the other deductions like labor insurance and whatever 福利金 is, but it’s a start.
OP must think glass half full instead of glass half empty.
There are worse things could happen for example.
Work contract in Chinese. No English.
Company pay you way less than 48K (say 33K), but reported 48K to tax office.
48K transferred to your bank book, but bank book held by company, and you are given cash for 33K.
You pay tax based on the 48K reported.
Again, all these just creative accounting from local company.
Find a new company (preferably foreign or multinational company), that paid you better and say bye.
No need to beat the bushes. There are other people that may need this kind of company as their first stepping stone in Taiwan.
Without this kind of company, no one gonna hire many fresh graduates from third world countries.
yes today i will go to tax department, and then i will decide after consulting, i already resigned from the company and hopefully going back to India this month.
How did things go?
Guy
for my 2023 tax no problem they gave a paper to pay according to 6%, because i spent 300 days in taiwan, now for 2024 it will happen if my company will cancel my ARC and if i am about to leave tiwan.
if i am staying then no need.
Thanks for writing back.
Good luck with your next step(s)!
Guy
Also BTW meal allowance doesn’t count towards the calculation for the 6% pension contribution and the labor insurance contribution…
Employers see it as doing their employees a favor as it is saving tax… but most would really see a total net loss regardless of tax.
yes when i saw the structure of my income, food allowances was not included. yes they did cleaver accounting.
Ouch!
