Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/07/06
By Wang Cheng-chung and Frances Huang
Taipei, July 6 (CNA) Terry Gou (郭台銘), a presidential contender of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT),
Gou, who is participating in the KMT primary for the 2020 presidential election, said that as one of the richest men in Taiwan, he has a better understanding than many other people in Taiwan about how to tax the wealthy.
"While others expect to collect only NT$8 billion to NT$15 billion in taxes on the rich, my method is expected to collect as much as NT$160 billion," Gou said in a Facebook post.
After entering the KMT primary, Gou called for a tax on the richest people in Taiwan, a move that is expected to allow the wealthy to shoulder a bigger burden of social welfare costs.
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