Taxing times in Taiwan as young protest
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Thousands of Taiwan people, taking a page from France鈥檚 鈥測ellow vest鈥 movement, protested yesterday for the third time in a week to demand lower taxes and the fair handling of tax disputes.
Wearing yellow vests, they shouted slogans and sounded air horns outside the financial authorities鈥 office in Taipei and also waved banners calling Taiwan鈥檚 tax collection policies illegal.
鈥淭his is about our futures,鈥 said Joanna Tai, a 23-year-old English-language graduate student who plans to teach.
鈥淲e look at wages in Hong Kong and China鈥檚 mainland, we want to know why there鈥檚 so much of a gap with Taiwan. Then a lot of my classmates want to start companies and be their own bosses but, because of taxes, a lot of small businesses have folded.鈥
Protesters said they had received tax bills sent in error or asking for too much tax. An appeal costs too much, they said, and tax collectors sometimes keep hounding them for taxes even after losing in court.
The Tax & Legal Reform League, an activist group, called the protest after marshaling about 20,000 people in an initial demonstration a week ago, and another 10,000 on Saturday.
鈥淭heir complaints are just that they鈥檙e not satisfied with the tax system,鈥 a spokeswoman of the financial authority Tsai Meng-chu said, noting that Taiwan offers payment deferrals to low-income individuals.
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