The United States proposes a proposal to cancel the double tax levy to Taiwanese who work in the United States and the US Taiwan company.
According to Bloomberg News on Wednesday (January 17), the agreement will reduce the pre -deducting taxes of Taiwanese in the United States, so that Taiwan enjoys dozens of countries similar to the United States.Treatment.
This agreement reduces the pre -deduction rate of interest and franchise fees from 30%to 10%, and also reduces the pre -deduction tax rate of most dividends to 15%.
The bill will also authorize the US President to negotiate with Taiwan that is not a formal treaty.
But reported that a package of this total value of about 80 billion US dollars (about S $ 107.415 billion) will be passed before the US tax season on January 29.Angry the Beijing government.
In the United States and Taiwan companies, the high taxes in the United States have hindered extra investment in the United States. Chip manufacturer TSMC once raised this problem with US Secretary of Commerce Raymond.Xiao Meiqin, a former representative of the United States, said that the "unfairness" of the US tax system has led Taiwanese companies to invest restrictions in the United States.
Taiwan officials estimated last March that if the tax rate for dividends that remit back to Taiwan, the actual tax rate for Taiwan companies in the United States is 51%.