Yes and Taiwanese not resident also are not taxed on world wide income but I think it’s less than 90 days a year residency. Can’t remember but if I left Taiwan it would be to live elsewhere on a different nationality and if I was doing that and needed to make a trip to Taiwan I could do that on one of my foreign passports visa free entry as a tourist which means time in Taiwan is not counted as tax residency.
Taiwan allows citizens to enter as foreign nationals but then are treated as any foreigner on a visitor visa entry.
Do you need to cancel household registration in order to do that, and then re-apply to continue if you want to continue tax residency?
Perhaps APRC grants more flexibility since it’s based on number of days spent in Taiwan, without having to do any separate visits to government offices. You can change your mind last minute every year depending on circumstances.
Actually, the foreign brides from Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand simply take a trip back to their original home countries after naturalization in Taiwan and easily and without hassle reclaim their previous citizenships.
Not the same thing. Indonesians can renounce citizenship.
Edit Marco got to it first. In any case yes if you country refuses to let you renounce you can have dual citizenship. Japan does not recognize the ROC so Japanese are refused if they try to renounce.
The only people adversely affected by the renunciation requirement are those whose original citizenship country both allows renunciation, and does not allow resumption.
If your original citizenship doesn’t allow renunciation, you have it easiest.
If your original citizenship allows resumption well you can end up right where you want to anyway.
If you’re original citizenship doesn’t allow dual citizenship, then renunciation doesn’t matter.
Yes well as in my case Australia did not allow Australians to have dual citizenship before April 2002. I wouldn’t say renunciation doesn’t matter. To be cursed with that choice was a wonderful experience. I suppose as I had decided Taiwan was home it made the decision to do so slightly easier. Also there was no JFRV or APRC available when I did so.
So yes renunciation is good for the soul. It’s like being cleansed of an infection. Being here on a foreign nationality was a hindrance to my life not a benefit.
Isn’t this what foreigners want? To be treated the same as Taiwanese? Oh my. I can already hear the gnashing of teeth over 183 days of residency to be tax resident being reduced to 30 days. All these schemes to legally reduce your tax burden to the state becoming leaner.
Yes in terms of paper work. Emotionally very different.
Even when you renounced knowing you can resume your feelings welled up inside of you. Weird wasn’t it? Living in the country you were born and raised in, and yet, not a citizen, just a mere permanent resident. lol
No anti dote for being a foreigner I’m afraid. You are now officially a stranger in a strange land. It’s a good experience to go through. Gives you a different perspective.
Whereas I stopped being a foreigner in a country I call home.
