The tax withholders of various kinds of income as provided in Article 88 shall, within the first ten days of each month, effect payment to the national treasury of all the taxes withheld in the previous month, and shall, before or on the last day of January of each year, make out withholding certificates and submit them to the tax collection authority-in-charge for verifying the amounts of tax withholdings from the taxpayers in the preceding year, and shall issue a receipt of the withholding certificate to each of the taxpayers before or on February 10 of each year. In the case that three national holidays occur in immediate succession in January, the period for the submission of the withholding certificates shall be extended to February 5 and the period of the issuance of the certificates to taxpayers concerned shall be extended to February 15. However, in the case of dissolution, closure, merger or transfer of ownership of a profit-seeking enterprise, or deactivation or change of an agency or organization, the tax withholder concerned shall immediately make out withholding certificates for the amount withheld and submit them to the tax collection authority-in-charge within ten days thereafter.
In the case of a non-resident individual or a profit-seeking enterprise without a fixed place of business in the Republic of China but having income as enumerated under Article 88, the tax withholder, shall within ten days from the date of withholding, effect payment to the national treasury of all the taxes withheld, make out withholding certificates and issue them to the taxpayer after submitting them to the tax collection authority-in-charge for verification.
In the case of dividends or earnings received by a profit-seeking enterprise having its head office outside the territory of the Republic of China but having a fixed place of business within the territory of the Republic of China, the provision in the preceding Paragraph shall apply mutatis mutandis.