Doctors sentenced over tax evasion chargesSUBSIDY SCHEME: A court said that a foundation allowed people who gave it money to apply for research, study or social welfare grants of up to 95 percent of the amountStaff writer, with CNATri-Service General Hospital superintendent Wang Chih-hung (王智弘) and 24 other military physicians on Wednesday were sentenced by the High Court to between two months and a year in prison in a tax evasion case. The physicians were among 27 people indicted on tax evasion charges in 2016, with the Taipei District Court finding them not guilty in the first trial. However, prosecutors appealed the decision and the High Court overturned the ruling, finding 25 of the defendants guilty of using a charitable foundation as a vehicle for tax evasion. The second trial found that the foundation allowed those who donated to get back most of what they gave and benefit from tax deductions. The tax evasion activity of the 25 defendants did not all take place in the same year and their intentions were separate from each other, so they are to be punished separately, the High Court added.

Source: Taipei Times December 30, 2021 16:57 UTC