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WWW.ICLG.CO.UK Chapter 28 Taiwan Dr. George Lin Lin & Partners Ross Darrell Feingold value-added Business Tax Act, and the Uniform Invoice Award 1 Relevant Authorities and Legislation Regulations. 1.1 Which entities regulate what type of gambling activity in your jurisdiction? 2 Application for a Licence and Licence Restrictions With limited exceptions, gambling in Taiwan is illegal. The current exceptions are: 2.1 Who can apply for a licence to supply gambling a. the Public Welfare Lottery, introduced in 2002 and regulated facilities? by the Ministry of Finance (“MoF”). The current licence holder, CTBC Bank (formerly known as Chinatrust Article 4 of the Welfare Lottery Act requires that the Public Welfare Commercial Bank), originally obtained a licence for the Lottery issuer be a bank appointed by the MoF. The MoF further period 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2013, and in 2013 requires that applicant banks must be a domestic bank as defined again successfully bid for the licence, for which the term is 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2023; by the Financial Supervisory Commission (“FSC”), satisfy certain capital ratios, satisfy certain credit ratings, have no significant b. sports betting, introduced in 2008 and regulated by the Ministry of Education’s Sports Administration (formerly a legal and regulatory sanctions in the preceding year for its banking cabinet level agency known as the Sports Affairs Council). business, and for an incumbent lottery operator, the lottery business The sports betting business operates under the name and the bank must maintain sufficient provisions for bad debts. TaiwanSports Lottery (“Sports Lottery”). The current licence For the Sports Lottery, the Sports Administration requires that the holder is a consortium that includes CTBC Bank, the local operator be a locally incorporated company with over 50% of the company ADATA, and the global company Intralota. Various equity owned by a local person or institution, have paid-in capital of wagers are available, such as point spread handicaps, match 2 billion New Taiwan Dollars, the directors/supervisors/executives winner, point total, margin of victory, and “prop bets”, on must have no gambling- or financial crime-related imprisonment that events such as the first player to score, usually in the form of “accumulators” that require winning multiple wagers; and concluded within the most recent ten years, a former public servant must have no corruption-related imprisonment that concluded c. the Uniform Invoice Lottery, introduced in 1951, is regulated by the MoF. Businesses with a monthly turnover above a within the most recent five years, have no unresolved personal or designated amount must issue receipts to customers at the corporate (where the individual has legal liability) bankruptcy, have point of sale; a unique lottery number is printed on this no service denial by a bills clearing house arising from insufficient receipt. The MoF announces winning receipt numbers in funds whether ongoing or having ended within the most recent three every odd-numbered month. Unlike the Welfare Lottery and years, there must be no ongoing event or event that ended within the Sports Lottery, participation in the Uniform Invoice Lottery most recent five years that impacts the individual’s creditworthiness, does not require the participant to purchase a lottery ticket and the operator must not be engaging in any other dishonest or make a wager. Our comments herein are thus generally activities. The Uniform Invoice Lottery is operated directly by the limited to the Welfare Lottery and Sports Lottery. MoF via the issuance to retailers of standard format receipts. 1.2 Specify all legislation which impacts upon any 2.2 Who or what entity must apply for a licence and which gambling activity (including skill and social games), entities or persons, apart from an operator, need to and specify in broad terms whether it permits or hold a licence? Are personal and premises licences prohibits gambling. needed? Do key suppliers need authorisation? Chapter 21, Articles 266, 268, 269 and 270 of Taiwan’s Criminal Both the Welfare Lottery Act and Sports Lottery Act require the Code broadly prohibit participation in, organising of, and profiting licensee to obtain approval to delegate the operation of the lottery to from gambling as well as lotteries. The Public Welfare