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August 2019

Infrastructure Projects / Construction Laws

The practice that land taxes are not exempt for non-urban lands provided for public infrastructure is declared unconstitutional pursuant to a judicial interpretation (Taiwan)

July 2019

Infrastructure Projects / Construction Laws

Amendments to the Government Procurement Law via Presidential decree (Taiwan)

July 2019

Infrastructure Projects / Construction Laws

In case the tender instructions do not specify the reasons why a bid bond will not be returned or will be recovered, even if a supplier is subject to circumstances under the subparagraphs of Article 31, Paragraph 2 of the Government Procurement Law, the procuring agency shall still not withhold or recover the bid bond (Taiwan)

June 2019

Infrastructure Projects / Construction Laws

If the entirety of the portion in a government procurement project that shall be performed by the contractor on its own under the original contract is performed by another supplier on behalf of the contractor, this would constitute a subcontract under the Government Procurement Law, but the internal relationship between the suppliers is not a pertinent issue (Taiwan)

May 2019

Infrastructure Projects / Construction Laws

If a complaint is filed to demolish a building which is not divided and whose ownership is not registered, all of the inheritors shall be identified as the defendants in order to have appropriate defendants and the current occupant shall not be identified as the sole defendant (Taiwan)

May 2019

Infrastructure Projects / Construction Laws

The calculation of a base rent should be based not only on the declared land value of the base but also on the location of the base and should be compared with the rents for neighboring lands, and it is not necessarily required to set the base rent at ten percent annual interest on the total declared land value, which should be the highest standard (Taiwan)