Regulations Governing Application of Calculating Income from Controlled Foreign Company for Individual<br> Article 7
An individual that directly holds shares or capital of a controlled foreign company, where the controlled foreign company possesses financial instruments measured at fair value through profit or loss (hereinafter referred to as FVPL), may choose to process based on the provisions of this article; the selected method cannot be changed once chosen unless as prescribed in Paragraph 5.
An individual shall choose the same calculation method for all their controlled foreign companies in which the individual holds shares or capital directly; the individual shall disclose relevant information and attach or prepare documents as prescribed in Article 10.
An individual that chooses to comply with the provisions of this article, when calculating the current-year earnings of the controlled foreign company as per Subparagraph 1 of Paragraph 1 of the preceding article, may deduct the amount of FVPL's fair value changes; the said individual shall add the adjustment amount for the disposal of FVPL while disposing of FVPL, and add the adjustment amount for the reclassification of FVPL while reclassifying FVPL:
1. The specified "amount of FVPL’s fair value changes" refers to the balance of the gains arising from FVPL's fair value changes minus the losses arising from FVPL's fair value changes.
2. The specified "adjustment amount for the disposal of FVPL" refers to the balance of the FVPL's book value on the disposal date minus the FVPL's original acquisition cost.
3. The specified "adjustment amount for the reclassification of FVPL" refers to the balance of the FVPL’s fair value on the date of reclassification minus the FVPL’s original acquisition cost when the FVPL is reclassified as a financial instrument measured at amortized cost or measured at fair value through other comprehensive income.
The calculation methods specified in the subparagraphs of preceding paragraph shall conform to the following provisions:
1. For the amounts specified in the subparagraphs of preceding paragraph, if the amount obtained is positive, it shall be included as a positive figure in the calculation; if the amount obtained is negative, it shall be included as a negative figure in the calculation.
2. The FVPL's original acquisition cost shall be determined based on its book value at the beginning of the year in which this article is chosen to apply; for a FVPL which is acquired or reclassified from another type of financial instrument during that year, its original acquisition cost shall be determined based on its book value on the purchase date or reclassification date.
3. The FVPL’s original acquisition cost shall be determined based on one of the calculation methods prescribed in Article 46 of the Enforcement Rules of the Income Tax Act; the selected method cannot be changed once chosen until the said FVPL is entirely disposed of.
If an individual chooses to calculate the current-year earnings of a controlled foreign company in which the individual holds shares or capital directly as per the four preceding paragraphs of this article, but fails to provide documents within the deadline as prescribed in Subparagraphs 1 to 4 of Paragraph 1 of Article 10 or fails to provide documents within the deadline as required by the Subparagraph 4 of Paragraph 2 of the same article, or this individual does not consistently use the same method for calculating the current-year earnings of the controlled foreign company, then from the year of such non-compliance or non-consistent calculation first occurs, the said individual is disqualified from applying the provisions of this article for ten years. Moreover, the net adjustment amount of current-year earnings of the controlled foreign companies as per the two preceding paragraphs shall be accumulated to December 31 of the year in which non-compliance or inconsistency first occurred; such accumulation shall then be included in the current-year earnings of the same year in accordance with the provisions of the preceding article.