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 2025 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 FY2025 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 FY2025 general budget proposal with subordinate agency budget and consolidated tables of TMG approved by Taipei City Council is summarized as follows：

a.The FY2025 General Budget of TMG

The approved annual revenue and expenditure for the FY2025 amount to NT$204.42 billion and NT$202.12 billion with increases of 6.44% and 5.98% for those of FY2024, respectively. The surplus of the annual revenue and expenditure is NT$2.30 billion, excluding the debt repayment of NT$9.24 billion, which will be financed with NT$6.94 billion for the surplus of previous fiscal years.

b.The FY2025 subordinate agency budget and consolidated tables of the general budget of TMG

The approved annual revenue and expenditure for the FY2025 amount to NT$239.24 billion and NT$232.57 billion show the decreases of 8.68% and 6.98% for those of FY2024, respectively. The surplus is NT$6.67 billion and indicates a decrease of 44.23% for that of FY2024.

(2)Plan and Compile FY2024 First and Second Supplementary Budget Proposal of TMG

According to the subsidies for the central government's annual key plans, the FY2024 first and second supplementary budget proposal of TMG has been carefully compiled, and has been approved by Taipei City Council as follows：

a.The FY2024 First Supplementary Budget of TMG

The approved annual revenue and expenditure for the FY2024 additionally amount to NT$9.58 billion and NT$1.88 billion, respectively. The surplus of the additional revenue and expenditure is NT$7.70 billion after deducting the debt repayment of NT$2.00 billion , which will reduce the use of surplus of previous fiscal years.

b.The FY2024 Second Supplementary Budget of TMG

The approved net annual revenue and expenditure for the FY2024 additionally amount to NT$13.64 billion and NT$12.39 billion, respectively. The surplus of the net additional revenue and expenditure is NT$1.25 billion which will reduce the use of surplus of previous fiscal years after the FY2024 First Supplementary Budget and finally have NT$0.41 billion surplus of income and expenditure.

(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 FY2025 special budget for the first phase of the Wanda-Zhonghe-Shulin Line granted has NT$3.25 billion in total.

(4)Compile the FY2023 disbursement table of TMG secondary reserve fund

The FY2023 budget of secondary reserve fund totals NT$0.74 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 NT$0.60 billion.

(5)Win the champion in "FY2024 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 FY2024 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 NT$0.12 billion 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 FY2023 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 30, 2024. The reviewing results have been completed on July 26 in the same year. The FY2023 General Financial Statement of TMG consisted of NT$207.51 billion in revenue, and NT$185.07 billion in expenditure, showing a surplus of NT$22.44 billion. After paying NT$10.61 billion for debt, there was a surplus of NT$11.83 billion. The FY2023 Subordinate Agency Financial Statement and consolidated tables for TMG consisted of NT$214.31 billion in revenue and NT$198.58 billion in expenditure, showing a surplus of NT$15.73 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 2024, 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 of Taipei City Government, there were 49 agencies (such as the Secretariat,Taipei City Government, etc.) audited in 2024. 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 FY2024 Semi-annual Balance Statement of TMG and submit it to TMAD on August 30, 2024. The reviewing results have been completed and sent back to the TCG on September 24 in the same year.

3. Statistics

(1)Promote the Administrative Statistics for TCG agencies, handle statistical work audits, and enrich basic municipal statistical data: As of the end of 2024 there had been a total of 2,001 Administrative statistic tables for TCG agencies. Also set the audit plan for statistical works of TCG and implement it with written reports and on sites.

(2)Publish various statistical analyzes and publications to support decision-making: Publish the "Statistical Weekly Report on Municipal Administration" with press releases on special subjects. Occasionally publish statistical special analysis. Issue the following statistical publications: monthly-"Short Report on Important Statistics of Taipei City", yearly-"Taipei City Statistical Yearbook", "Taipei City Gender Statistics and Figures" in Chinese/English versions, " Taipei City Statistics and Figures on Fewer Children Trend" in Chinese/English versions and "Taipei City Elderly Statistics and Figures" in Chinese/English versions to provide reference for public.

(3)Establish diversified statistical indicators to provide TCG with the direction of efforts: Compile diverse statistical indicators to publicize TCG policy performance and as references for agencies' administration, such as: monthly-"Important Statistical Indicators for Taipei City and The Five Municipalities". yearly-"Important Statistic Indicators of Taipei City in the past 10 years ", "Taipei City Statistical Indicators in the past two years by District", "Selected Indicators of Taipei City and World's Major Cities", " Selected Indicators of Taipei City and Other Domestic Cities ", "Taipei City Urban Competitiveness Indicators", "Taipei City Gender Statistical Indicators ", "Statistics Indicators on New Immigrants of Taipei", "Taipei City Statistics on Fewer Children Trend", "Taipei City Elderly Statistics" and " Climate Change Observation Indicators of Taipei City". Additionally, the definition and explanation of associated indicators are revised annually so as to have the use of the indicators more precise.

(4)Compile the Climate Budget of TCG and establish the webpages of "Climate Budget and Climate Change Statistics" on the DBAS website to demonstrate TCG's efforts for achieving net zero emissions by 2050: In response to TCG's efforts on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, the DBAS not only continues to compile the "FY2024 Climate Budget for Taipei City Government Agencies (Funds) " but also establish the webpages of "Climate Budget and Climate Change Statistics" on the DBAS website to provide a comprehensive overview of the devoted resource and the corresponding achievements of TCG's climate governance efforts as reference for public. Besides, TCG honors with the 2024 “City of Excellence Award” in the environment protection category provided by the CommonWealth Magazine.

(5)Innovate statistical information maintenance process to improve the efficiency of statistical services: After comprehensively review the data maintenance operations of statistical services and improve internal operating system functions, innovate statistical information maintenance process, so as to simultaneously update the data of the “Taipei City Statistics Database Inquiry System”, “Taipei City Government Open Data” and “Taipei City Citizen Dashboard” through the database automatically. By the end of 2013, integrate 98 open datasets with approximate 1.15 million time series figures and 35 dashboard data source files. In this way, completely save the manual production time with reducing 40 minutes per dataset in average, efficiency increased by 100%.

(6)Improve the visualization applications of statistical information to play the function of municipal promotion: Continuously use visualization software to maintain the "Taipei● 123" which demonstrates the City's development in all aspects through dashboard interactive statistical charts. In addition, regularly update the "Taipei City Citizen Dashboard", established in cooperation with the Department of Information Technology, by means of the cross-agency maintaining system. Hope to have numbers warmer and integrated into people's lives through visual charts.

(7)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.

(8)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.

(9)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 2024:

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

b. Biannually: the Motor Vehicle Freight Traffic Survey.

c. Quarterly: the Job Vacancy and Employment Status Survey.

d.Annually: the Manpower Utilization Survey, the Service Operation and Investment.Overview Survey, the Survey on Earnings by Occupation.