RECOVERY: Premier Su Tseng-chang said the special budget is to be unveiled within a week and hopefully the bill would pass in time to tide over hard-hit sectors
Taipei Times
Date: Feb 21, 2020
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
The Executive Yuan yesterday unveiled a special bill for COVID-19 prevention, relief and recovery
Premier Su Tseng-chang, right, yesterday asks the Democratic Progressive Party legislative caucus in Taipei to help him to pass a special bill for COVID-19 prevention, relief and recovery.
Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times
People who break a home quarantine would face a fine of NT$100,000 to NT$1 million, while those who break a quarantine at a government-designated quarantine center would face a fine of NT$200,000 to NT$1 million, the bill states.
Firms that voluntarily pay quarantined employees, or employees who take leave to care for children under quarantine, would benefit from a break in “profit-seeking enterprise income tax” of up to twice the salary payout, it states.
People who are furloughed after being placed under government-designated quarantine or home quarantine may request compensation from health authorities within two years, it states.
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