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Ministry touts the success of vouchers
By Angelica Oung / Staff reporter
The government’s Triple Stimulus Vouchers helped boost Taiwan’s retail sector last year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said yesterday as it unveiled the final tally for the program.
The ministry’s statistics showed that 23.32 million people in Taiwan, or 99 percent of the population, participated in the program, claiming either paper or digital vouchers.
The ministry said that 99.6 percent of the vouchers, or NT$64.28 billion (US$2.25 billion), were redeemed by vendors.
Premier Su Tseng-chang holds outsized samples of the government’s Triple Stimulus Vouchers at a news conference in Taipei on June 2 last year.
EDITORIAL: Electronic payments still an outlier
The number of electronic payment users in Taiwan surpassed 10 million in August last year, and reached 11.4 million at the end of November an increase of about 75 percent from a year earlier. The sharp increase reflects e-payment service providers’ aggressive promotion of non-cash payment methods, and shows that more people are using contactless payment amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Financial Supervisory Commission has said.
Non-cash payment methods comprise credit and debit cards, electronic stored-value cards, electronic payments and mobile payments. While non-cash payment is becoming more popular, its penetration rate last year missed the government’s target of 52 percent, a goal it set in 2015 when the Act Governing Electronic Payment Institutions (電子支付機構管理條例) took effect aiming to double the rate in five years.