The national treasury last month collected NT$567.3 billion (US$20.37 billion) in tax revenue, a 20.1 percent increase from a year earlier, setting new records in corporate income, securities transaction and business tax revenues, the Ministry of Finance said yesterday.
Corporate income tax revenue soared 77.7 percent to NT$230.6 billion, as export-focused companies benefited from an improving global economy and emerged unscathed from Taiwan’s domestic COVID-19 outbreak, which began in May, Department of Statistics Deputy Director-General Chen Yu-feng (陳玉豐) told an online news conference in Taipei.
Taiwan is home to the world’s largest makers of semiconductors, camera lenses, flat panels and other electronic
The national treasury last month collected NT$293.2 billion (US$10.58 billion) in tax revenue, an increase of 28.5 percent from a year earlier, as all tax categories posted strong gains on the back of economic improvement, the Ministry of Finance said yesterday.
Corporate income tax revenue soared 52.3 percent to NT$21.6 billion, while personal income tax revenue increased 17.8 percent to NT$29.4 billion, the ministry’s monthly report showed.
The gains were due to companies and individuals filing income taxes before a moratorium amid a COVID-19 outbreak was introduced last month, Department of Statistics Deputy Director-General Chen Yu-feng (陳玉豐) told an online news conference
EDITORIAL: Show nurses respect they deserve
Tragedy struck on Monday at a New Taipei City hospital when a 62-year-old COVID-19 patient stabbed three nurses with a knife. The patient was reportedly upset about being neglected in an isolation room.
While the three nurses did not experience life-threatening injuries, the wounds were serious and one had to undergo emergency surgery.
This was very upsetting to already overworked and underappreciated nurses, who are toiling long hours in grueling conditions to help combat the COVID-19 outbreak. The nurses who were attacked also experienced psychological trauma and are receiving counseling.
Although tensions are high and the attacker was allegedly emotionally unstable, this sort of treatment of nurses is not uncommon even in more normal circumstances. Patients and their families often do not appreciate their professionalism and hard work, and treat them like their personal servants.