Interest in the mundane subject of taxes picked up last year as the government began a series of reforms to the tax code. Ever since the total abolition of the slaughter tax in April and the move in August to lift the land tax for farmers, taxes have been on everybody's mind.
四月，財政部公佈廢除年稅收達卅億元的屠宰稅；八月，停繳田賦；緊接著所得稅法部分條文修正草案，又在立法院熱烈討論；十二月，執政黨中央政策會召開黨政協調會，大幅提高所得稅各項免稅額。賦稅頓成熱門話題，而隨著申報日期的逼近，所得稅更是話題中的話題。