Department of Budget, Accounting and Statistics

1. Budgeting

(1)Plan and Compile the General Budget Proposal with Subordinate Agency Budget and Consolidated Tables of Taipei Municipal Government (TMG) for 2023 fiscal year (FY): Allocate budget with priority of policies to improve administrative construction and services of Taipei City Government (TCG). Also expect public and private sectors to keep on cooperating and developing Taipei City into a global leading international metropolis with urban prosperity for future generations. The FY2023 general budget proposal with subordinate agency budget and consolidated tables of TMG has been carefully compiled in accordance with the "Principles for Preparing Central and Local Government Budget", "Guidelines for Preparing Taipei Municipal Government General Budget" and " Guidelines for Preparing Subordinate Agency Budget of General Budget of Taipei Municipal Government".

The FY2023 general budget proposal with subordinate agency budget and consolidated tables of TMG approved by Taipei City Council is summarized as follows：

a.The FY2023 General Budget of TMG

The approved annual revenue and expenditure for the FY2023 amount to NTD175.02 billion and NTD177.49 billion with increases of 2.42% and 3.44% for those of FY2022, respectively. The deficit of the annual revenue and expenditure is NTD2.47 billion and the debt repayment is NTD8.06 billion, which will be financed with NTD10.53 billion for the surplus of previous fiscal years.

b. The FY2023 subordinate agency budget and consolidated tables of the general budget of TMG

The approved annual revenue and expenditure for the FY2023 amount to NT$280.41 billion and NT$265.74 billion show the decreases of 13.67% and 14.45% for those of FY2022, respectively. The surplus is NT$14.67 billion and indicates an increase of 3.31% for that of FY2022.

(2) Plan and Compile FY2022 First and Second Supplementary Budget Proposal of TMG According to the subsidies for the central government's annual key plans, the FY2022 first and second supplementary budget proposal of TMG has been carefully compiled, and has been approved by Taipei City Council as follows：

a.The FY2022 First Supplementary Budget of TMG

The approved net annual revenue and expenditure for the FY2022 additionally amount to NTD2.49 billion and NTD3.16 billion, respectively. The deficit of the net additional revenue and expenditure is NTD0.67 billion, which will be financed with the surplus of previous fiscal years.

b.The FY2022 Second Supplementary Budget of TMG

The approved net annual revenue and expenditure for the FY2022 additionally amount to NTD8.84 billion and NTD10.04 billion, respectively. The deficit of the net additional revenue and expenditure is NTD1.20 billion, which will be financed with the surplus of previous fiscal years.

(3)Compile the Associated Special Budget for Taipei Metropolitan Mass Rapid Transit

The associated special budget for Taipei Metropolitan Mass Rapid Transit System is compiled for the vision of constructing the world’s first-class metropolitan rapid transit system for the Taipei metropolitan area, for strengthening the performance of the overall MRT network, and for improving associated services and quality of life. Taipei City Council has approved it and made the resolution: "The relevant expenditure should be submitted to the Council annually.” The FY2023 special budget for the first phase of the Wanda-Zhonghe-Shulin Line and other 1 item have granted NT$6.47 billion in total.

(4) Compile the FY2021 disbursement table of TMG secondary reserve fund

The FY2021 budget of secondary reserve fund totals NTD0.74 billion. The amount of secondary reserve fund approved by Taipei City Government for the requirements of associated agencies according to Article 96, 70 of the Budget Act is NTD0.71 billion.

(5) Win the champion in "FY2022 valuation for the Executing Performance of the General Grant subsidized by the Central Government to Municipalities and County (City) Governments."

Due to the reorganization and promotion of New Taipei City, Taichung City, and Tainan City in 2010, "Regulations on subsidies from Central Government to the Municipalities and County (City) Governments" has been revised and thereon, municipalities may be subsidized with the general grant. According to “Directions for Evaluating the Annual Programs and Budget of Municipalities and County (City) Governments," the results of the program and budget evaluations will be the reference as to increasing or decreasing the general grant for Municipalities and County (City) Governments.

The results of FY2022 valuation in social welfare, education, infrastructure, and annual budget compilation & execution parts show that the TCG gets the highest score and will be awarded an additional amount of NTD28.82 million grant from the Central Government.

(6) In order to encourage the agencies of TCG to achieve good budget execution performance, the associated performance result will be quarterly reported for reviewing. Also, the Execution Statement of TMG General Budget is quarterly compiled and submitted to Taipei City Council for reference. At the end of the year, the budget execution performance will be assessed in accordance with the "Evaluation Directions for The Capital Expense Budget Execution Performance of Agencies of Taipei City Government."

(7) Compile the FY2021 General Financial Statement with Subordinate Agency Financial Statement and Consolidated Tables of TMG and submit it to Taipei Municipality Audit Division (TMAD) for review on April 29, 2022. The reviewing results have been completed on July 25 in the same year. The FY2021 General Financial Statement of TMG consisted of NTD184.76 billion in revenue, and NTD181.23 billion in expenditure, showing a surplus of NTD3.53 billion. After paying NTD8.81 billion for debt, there was a deficit of NTD5.28 billion, which was financed with the surplus of previous fiscal years. The FY2021 Subordinate Agency Financial Statement and consolidated tables for TMG consisted of NTD319.30 billion in revenue and NTD307.82 billion in expenditure, showing a surplus of NTD11.48 billion.

2. Accounting

(1) Review the accounting reports of Taipei City Government's (TCG's) agencies. Also, compile the performance of revenues and expenditures of general and special budget and provide it to the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS), Executive Yuan and TMAD for reference.

(2) Continue to review each TCG subordinate agency's accounting system for producing the associated effect. As of the end of 2022, there were 31 accounting systems (such as the School Affair Development Fund for Taipei University, etc.) reviewed by DBAS.

(3) Continue to implement internal control and ensure financial orders. In order to reinforce the agencies' internal control, there were25 agencies (such as the Taipei City Market Administration Office etc.) audited in2022 And they will be notified of the associated result

reports for improvement after the reviewing of the Taipei City Government Internal Control System Implementation Committee.

(4) Compile the FY2022 Semi-annual Balance Statement of TMG and submit it to TMAD on August 31, 2022. The reviewing results have been completed and sent back to the TCG on September 26 in the same year.

3. Statistics

(1) Promote the Official Statistics for TCG agencies to provide decision-making information: As of the end of 2022 there had been a total of 2,030 official statistic tables for TCG agencies. In addition, publish the "Statistical Weekly Report on Municipal Administration" with press releases on special subjects. Issue the following statistical publications: monthly-"Short Report on Important Statistics of Taipei City", "Important Statistical Indicators for Taipei City and The Five Municipalities" and "Important Statistical Indicators of Taipei City", yearly-"Taipei City Statistical Yearbook", and "Taipei City Statistical Abstract" in Chinese/English versions. Also set the audit plan for statistical works of TCG and implement it with written reports and on sites.

(2) Compile diverse indicators to publicize TCG policy performance and as references for agencies' administration, such as: "Important Statistic Indicators of Taipei City in Recent Years", "Taipei City Statistical Indicators by District", "Analysis of Statistical Indicators for Taipei City and International Cities", "Analysis of Statistical Indicators for Taipei City and National Cities", "Taipei City Urban Competitiveness Indicators", "Taipei City Gender Statistics", "Taipei City Gender Statistics and Figures" in Chinese/English versions, "Statistical Indicators on New Immigrants", "Taipei City Statistics on Fewer Children Trend", " Taipei City Statistics and Figures on Fewer Children Trend" in Chinese/English versions, "Taipei City Elderly Statistics", " Taipei City Elderly Statistics and Figures" in Chinese/English versions and "Taipei City Statistical Indicators for Reviewing Expenditure Budget Estimate". Additionally, the definition and explanation of associated indicators are revised annually so as to have the use of the indicators more precise. 

(3) Enrich the " Taipei City Statistics Database Inquiry System " to provide statistical information: For improving the statistical services, establish the "Taipei City Statistics Database Inquiry System". It contains important statistics, important statistical indicators, price statistics, and family income and expenditure statistics sub-databases. Monthly, annual, gender, administrative region, fewer children trend, elderly, climate budget, same-sex marriage statistics and international urban statistics can be viewed by tables and downloaded as files through the diverse functions of this system to improve the efficiency and quality of using statistics.

(4) Improve the visualization applications of statistical information to play the function of municipal promotion: Use visualization software to continue maintaining the "Taipei●123" with interactive statistical charts. Choose important statistical indicators of the fewer children trend, elderly and gender themes to compile static and dynamic statistical charts, presenting the basic situation of Taipei city with municipal construction. Set up the "statistical visualization" item in this website to collect the abovementioned visual statistical information to have visitors feel the results of municipal administration through the multi-visual statistical information, and to play a statistical function of supporting municipal promotion.

(5) Conduct surveys on civil economic activities, such as family income and expenditure, and price indices in Taipei, to understand the citizens' living standard, observe the price level and measure the changes in purchasing power of legal tender. The associated reports are available on the DBAS website.

(6) Survey the associated prices as references for TMG budget compiling standards of common items: In order to have reasonable allocation of resources for maximum effectiveness, there is a survey conducted for collecting price information of commonly used items such as

office equipment and vehicles at the beginning of preparing the annual budget estimates.After reviewed, the price information will be provided as the reference of the common benchmark for budgeting.

(7) Assist the Central Government in executing the following statistical surveys and obtain the associated results for the reference of the government's relevant decision-making in 2022:

a. Monthly: the Manpower Survey, the Employees' Earnings Survey.

b. Biannually: the Motor Vehicle Freight Traffic Survey.

c. Annually: the Turnover and employee's movement survey, the Manpower Utilization Survey, the Survey on Earnings by Occupation.

d. Other: 2021 Industry and Services Census.