Membership in the WTO, which Taiwan has been trying to join for many years now, will have an immediate effect on tax levels, and the official tobacco and wine monopoly that has been in force since the ROC government moved to Taiwan will have to be abolished, in favor of a new tobacco and wine taxation law.
我國多年來為加入世界貿易組織而積極努力，不過一旦加入，卻將影響國內多項稅率，自政府來台後便施行的菸酒公賣制度也勢必廢除，繼之代以新通過的菸酒稅法。