After the new administration came to power it adopted a policy objective of reducing the development gap between city and countryside, as well as between northern and southern Taiwan. This was the thinking behind the government's decision to reduce by four percentage points the proportion of the Tax Redistribution Fund earmarked for Taiwan's special municipalities.
新政府上台之後，試圖拉近城鄉間的差距，南北中均衡發展做為地方施政目標之一，直轄市的統籌分配款因而調降了四個百分點，引起台北市不滿。