A week or so ago I posted an article from the EPA about how you could make NT$300 from spotting squids. Some of you here may have been uninterested in that job, so here’s another opportunity to make even more. Yes, the government is bankrupt when it comes to ideas about how to improve the economy, and is offering NT$5,000 for your citizen suggestions as a cash prize. If you want to win this princely sum, go to this website - cpa.gov.tw - between 2008/09/12~2008/12/12 and provide your ideas in no more than a 1000 words and you could be a winner. This is how the economists and experts will judge the winning entrees:
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Creativity（30%）
Feasibility（50%）
Expected Benefit（20%）
We will choose the best 3 suggestions and award each winner a NT$5,000 coupon. 20 runners-up will each receive a NT$1,000 coupon.
Please ensure that you enclose your real name, contact number, and address.[/b]
I thank my darling g/f for translating this from the website listed above.
Looks like the suggestions are pouring in. Here’s one that stands a good chance of winning: Get the poorest segment of society, the OFWs, to foot the bill by raising their taxes. Yes, according to a new law that will be brought in next January, OFWs who stay and work in Taiwan for at least 183 days will be forced to pay 20% income tax.(Previously, the 20% non-refundable income tax was only for those who stayed less than 183 days in Taiwan.) Go here for the story:
