The Hualien County government proposed the 2021 version of the "Hualien County Ore Mining and Landscape Maintenance Special Tax Autonomy Bill" to be submitted to the parliament for review. Due to a lawsuit dispute over the tax amount, it was returned to the parliamentary procedure committee and requested to be resubmitted.

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[Reporter Yang Guowen/Taipei Report] The Hualien County Government's imposition of high ore taxes sparked controversy!

Fuan Mining Company is dissatisfied with the Hualien County Local Taxation Bureau's ore tax in accordance with Article 6 of the Self-Government Regulations, and the tax rate has been increased from 10 yuan per metric ton to 70 yuan. From 2017 to 2019, the tax collection of 4 ore mining cases has reached as high as 252 million Yuan, after the lawsuit was rejected, an administrative lawsuit was filed. The Taipei High Administrative Court held that the county government’s calculation of 70 yuan per 8 metric tons of ore tax was illegal and wrong, and the county government lost the case; after the appeal, the Supreme Administrative Court ruled that Bei Gaoxing The verdict is well-founded in the law, and the Hualien County Government has now been sentenced to lose the lawsuit.

As for what is the basis for taxation and how to reduce it?

The Supreme Administrative Court pointed out that it is advisable for the Hualien County Government to request the Hualien County Council to review and amend the "Hualien County Mineral Mining Special Tax Self-Government Regulations" as soon as possible.

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This case stems from the fact that Hualien County Government has raised the ore tax from 10 yuan per metric ton to 70 yuan since 2016 in accordance with Article 6 of the Self-Government Regulations. According to the regulations within %, after the application for reexamination and appeals were rejected by the Huaxian county government one after another, many administrative lawsuits were filed one after another.