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Tax Governance

Tax Governance

In response to the global trend to implement tax governance and ensure corporate sustainability and tax compliance, the Bank submitted a proposal to the 7th meeting of the 16th Board of Directors and established the ''Taiwan Business Bank Tax Governance Policy'',and approved by the Board of Directors on June 10, 2026, rivised on June 30, 2026 . The policy states that the Board of Directors is the ultimate decision making and supervisory unit for tax governance and is in charge of approving tax governance policies and ensuring tax governance policies work effectively. The Accounting Department at the Head Office is the supervisory unit for taxes and reports to the Board of Directors as needed based on the materiality of each issue. In addition, the Accounting Department files audited corporate income tax return at the end of May every year.

 

The use of tax strategies and management of tax costs at the Bank and its domestic and foreign subsidiaries should comply with the principles of sound business practice and tax integrity in order to reduce tax risk, increase shareholder value, and fulfill corporate social responsibility.

Tax Governance Policy
  • Legal compliance: Understand and comply with local tax laws and regulations, including their legislative intent and spirit, accurately calculate correct taxes and pay the amounts by the statutory deadlines, and fulfill the social responsibility of a taxpayer.
  • Risk management: Assess the impacts of changes of local tax laws and international tax guidelines where the business is conducted, and formulate response strategies.
  • Economic substance: Not to use tax structures that are tax evasion based or without commercial substance, profit shifting to low tax jurisdictions, or tax avoidance via tax havens
  • Arm's length transactions: Stakeholder transactions should adhere to the arm's-length principle and comply with the local transfer pricing rules where the business is conducted.
  • Information transparency: Comply with financial reporting guidelines and the competent authorities' regulations, and disclose taxation information regularly to ensure tax transparency.
  • Honest communication: Communicate with local tax authorities in places of operations in an open and honest manner to maintain friendly relationships.
  • Cultivation of talents: Strengthen professional competence and professionalism of tax specialists and continue to cultivate professional tax talents through educational trainings and tax seminars.
Country-by-country reporting

The 2024 revenue, profit and loss before tax, and income tax information for the TBB Group in each tax jurisdiction are as follows:

(Unit: NT$1,000)

Tax jurisdictions Number of employees Revenues Profit and loss before tax Current income tax Tax paid
Taiwan
5,666
69,513,130
13,270,937
2,527,976
2,366,465
China
42
552,864
208,030
29,308
26,119
Cambodia
23
86,636
13,811
729
884
Hong Kong
37
1,310,942
420,296
82,199
82,205
Australia
31
2,955,404
556,015
166,154
166,154
USA
34
2,578,031
702,006
150,421
150,629
Japan
18
617,145
75,507
45,655
6,076
Myanmar
2
0
-1,640
0
0
Income tax rate
(Unit: NT$1,000)
Title 2024 2025 Average
Profit before income tax
14,062,664
15,244,962
14,653,813
Income tax expense
2,825,963
3,002,437
2,914,200
Effective tax rate
20.10%
19.69%
19.90%
Income tax paid
1,922,327
2,798,595
2,360,461
Cash effective tax rate
13.67%
18.36%
16.01%

According to the average effective tax rate in the global banking industry provided in the S&P Global 2025 CSA Handbook, the Bank's effective tax rate was below the global industry average in 2024 and 2025. The main reason was that the Bank operated primarily in Taiwan, where the statutory income tax rate was 20% and below other countries. OBU and securities income being tax exempt in Taiwan also helped to push the Bank's effective income tax rate below the global average.


The income tax paid in 2025 is mainly due to (1) the back payment of income tax for 2024 in June 2025, and (2) the provisional tax payment in September 2025 (half of the income tax payable in the previous (2024) year was paid), etc.; net profit before tax in 2023, 2024 and 2025 are NT$12,427,807 thousand, NT$14,062,664 thousand and NT$15,244,962 thousand, respectively.