▲ Although same-sex marriage in Taiwan has not been legalized, there are a few homosexual spouses who have been legally registered. From this year on, they will be able to break through system barriers and go online to merge tax filings. (Photo/Photo taken from Partner League Facebook)
Taiwan’s legally registered same-sex spouse is here! Starting this year, the Ministry of Finance’s financial system will connect with the Ministry of the Interior to allow same-sex couples with ID cards to apply for taxes online. Regarding this breakthrough, Wu Yiting, who is also registered as a woman with her spouse, said that since 2014, after he went to the Ministry of Finance to report the inconvenience of not being able to file taxes online every year, the government is willing to listen to the people's voices, which is an exciting small progress.
"When I filed a tax manually for the first time, I wrote that my eyes were about to take off the window." Wu Yiting said that if I could file online, I could do it in 10 minutes. It is enough to see a little bit of kindness about transgender people who are oppressed in daily life.
▲ After the Ministry of Finance’s finance system is connected with the Ministry of Interior, the situation where the same gender as the spouse cannot file taxes online will no longer exist. (Photo/Provided by Wu Yiting)
The Finance Center of the Ministry of Finance stated that since there are reports from the public and the spouse with a legal marriage relationship, of course, it will try to improve. Therefore, when connecting with the Ministry of Interior system, starting from the filing of income tax in May this year, legally registered spouses of the same-sex can also conveniently file taxes online.
It is understood that although same-sex marriage in Taiwan has not been legalized, there are similarities to Wu Yiting and his spouse Wu Zhiyi. One of them changes their gender first and legally registers as a couple of one man and one woman, and the other party changes it to a special legal same-sex couple of women. There are also stories similar to Danish girls, and there are also a few cases where a man and a woman are consciously a woman after they register to get married, so they change their gender and become a few cases of lesbian couples.
After taking a small step in the rights and interests of same-sex couples, Wu Zhiyi reminded that although the annotation of same-sex couples has been opened on the island, such as Kaohsiung , local registrations still have the gap in the rights and interests of unable to merge tax filing and jointly apply for social housing. These are the things that need to be worked hard for the next step.
