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Foreigners to get subsidies from Taipei government
A report on Friday last week misstated that the Taipei City Government wasn’t going to offer ARC and APRC holders cash subsidies and tax breaks
By Steven Crook and Michael Turton / Contributing reporters
Over the weekend, among expatriate circles, a report by the Central News Agency (CNA), which stated that individual foreign residents unlike Taiwanese citizens wouldn’t be eligible for one-off cash handouts of NT$3,000 to NT$6,000 if they were encountering financial difficulties as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, caused some dismay and a good amount of annoyance.
Foreigners who’ve been living and paying taxes in the capital for years felt aggrieved and excluded. And all for no reason, it seems: Tom Chou (周台竹), commissioner of the Taipei Mayor’s Office for External Affairs, on Monday said: “We won’t exclude a foreign individual, so long as he or she pays tax to the central or local government.”
TPP establishes Kaohsiung base, eyes council seats
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter, with CNA
The Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) yesterday established a Kaohsiung chapter, with a pledge to win at least three city councilor seats in elections next year.
TPP Legislator Jang Chyi-lu (張其祿) doubles as the head of the chapter, which is headquartered on Sandao 2nd Road in Cianjhen District (前鎮).
It is also Jang’s service office.
From second left, Taiwan People’s Party’s (TPP) Legislator Jang Chyi-lu, Taipei Mayor and TPP chairman Ko Wen-je and TPP Taipei chapter head Lin Kuo-cheng take part in a ceremony to inaugurate the party’s Kaohsiung chapter, which doubles as Jang’s service office, at a ceremony in the city’s Cianjhen District yesterday.