Gift Certificate

The Taiwanese government decide to give us $3,600 NT dollars per person as a gift for Chinese New Year. This amount is equal to $110 US dollars. The president Ma is encouraging everyone to go shopping. Because of economy situation is not good in these days, more people are not even spending money.

Here are the gift certificates. It is like money. We can buy with it but we cannot change cash with it.

On January 18th, everyone remembered to go to get their gift certificates. It is the first time in the history of Taiwan for people to get money from the government.

However, the government is giving us money and how they are going to pay money back to stores? It is probably form our taxes. That will be too much tax payment. I do not know, that is only my guess...