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Taiwan's Ruling Party Proposes Change to Securities Transactions Taxation

25 August 2015

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Proposed Changes

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Taiwan

Taiwan's ruling party, the Kuomintang party, has recently proposed reforms to the country's securities transactions tax. Currently, Taiwan levies a securities transactions tax of 0.3% for company shares and 0.1% for corporate bonds and certain other government approved securities, with some exemptions. From 1 January 2015, an optional 15% capital gains tax (CGT) in lieu of the transactions tax was to be introduced for active traders with transactions exceeding TWD 1 billion, but this was delayed to 1 January 2018. Under the recently proposed changes, the 0.3% rate would be reduced to 0.25% and active traders with transactions exceeding TWD...