The ARC No. Used in the Individual Income Tax Return Must Be the Same as the One Kept by a Bank or the Post Office to Ensure Successful Tax Payment by Credit Card or Savings Account, or Tax Refund Tra
Taichung Branch, National Taxation Bureau of the Central Area, Ministry of Finance says that the period for foreigners to file their annual income tax in 2021 is from May 1 to May 31. To cooperate with the Immigration Agency, the Ministry of the Interior, in order to successfully complete 2020 tax-filing, the Branch states that if a foreign taxpayer when filing tax uses a credit card or a current savings account or other financial account to collect a tax refund, he/she should make certain that a taxpayer’s ARC Number is in accordance with the ARC Number registered in financial institutes.
The Branch explains that foreigners may download and use the alien e-Filing system on the website “the e-Filing and Tax Payment Service of the Ministry of Finance (R.O.C.)” (https://tax.nat.gov.tw) to file tax in May. The operating procedure to pay tax instantly on line by a credit card or a current savings account requires financial institutes to compare the number that a cardholder and a depositor currently has. When a foreigner files individual income tax, if his/her ARC number is not the same as the number registered in financial institutes, card authorization and debit deduction would fail. The same is true for financial institutes depositing a tax refund; they must also make such comparison to confirm the correct number of both sides, or a tax refund cannot successfully be transferred to his/her financial account.
The Branch finally notes in brief that in order to file the 2020 individual tax successfully and to receive a tax refund as soon as possible, one who has already replaced an old ARC number with a new one should be sure to register the new number at all relevant financial institutes.
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