New legislation- TARC still needed for NWOHR?

[Hayashi]

@tando

right. how to notarize is here.

Hm, that seems more complicated than I thought. Also, based on reading posts here on the forum, it seems that many landlords evade taxes and aren’t willing to provide the necessary documents to allow HHR at a rental apartment. I read that the law changed so that landlords must allow registering HHR at rental apartments, but I wonder if, in practice, many landlords still refuse. Any idea?

@tando

it is more common that some “friend” allows you to “live” their place.

I think this corresponds to this case from the Kaohsiung web page:

(1) If you move into a house owned by yourself, your spouse, direct blood relatives, or direct in-laws, or rent another person’s house for free, you must present the house ownership certificate or the most recently paid and stamped house tax bill or the sales contract within the last 6 months. A certificate or other document sufficient to prove ownership is required.

Reviewing the Kaohsiung web page, it seems that in this case you must prepare these documents, assuming initial HHR registration for an NWOHR:

1. 國民身分證正本: National ID card not required (because it does not yet exist for first-time HHR registration).
2. 印章: Your own chop/seal/stamp.
3. 戶口名簿: Household register for the address you are moving to.
4. 房屋證明文件: Housing certification documents, which for the case of “free rental” from another person, means the “house ownership certificate” (房屋所有權狀).
5. Your photo.
6. Processing fee.

Therefore, in my understanding, the house owner only needs to prepare items #3 and #4 above. My understanding/guess is that for #3 (household register), the owner needs to go to the HHR office to print a copy, and for #4, the house owner will always have this original house ownership certificate as the original document proving ownership of the house. Correct?

After successful registration into this HHR, then what additional obligations or burdens are incurred for the house owner because of the newly-registered person? Does it change taxes in any way? Does it cause additional paperwork burden for the house owner? Will the HHR office send any postal mail (for the newly-registered person) to this address? What happens if the newly-registered person leaves Taiwan, and after two years the HHR office does the “moving out” procedure for the newly-registered person? Does this “moving out” procedure require any action by the house owner?

I’m trying to understand exactly how much of a burden is caused when you request a friend to allow you to register your HHR at their address.