Taiwan

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Overview

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Identifiers

Collect two identifiers from each business customer in Taiwan and submit them as strings on the application body. Tax ID: Taiwan uses a single 8-digit identifier for both registry and tax purposes; no separate company number. Registration number: Taiwan uses a single 8-digit identifier for both registry and tax purposes; no separate company number.

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Sector regulators

FSC · CBC · NCC

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Legal structures

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How documents combine

For each evidence area, this table shows whether the listed documents are alternatives (any one of) or a bundle (all required). The artifact-by-artifact lookup follows below.

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Documents to collect

The physical documents you’ll collect from your customer, with the evidence area each one proves. One document can prove multiple areas — for example, Brazil’s Cartão CNPJ covers both tax and business-registration proof, so it appears once with both areas listed. Not applicable in Taiwan: Good Standing. Skip these areas — no local artifact exists.

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Collection notes

• Legal Registration: Downloadable from findbiz.nat.gov.tw; includes UBN, entity type, paid-in capital, directors, address.
• Constitutive Documents: Filed with MOEA at incorporation; public companies must file amendments; private companies hold copies internally.
• Tax Registration: Issued by National Taxation Bureau; same 8-digit UBN; also shows VAT registration status.
• Operating Permit: Issued by local city/county government; required before commencing operations; separate from MOEA registration.
• Sector-Specific License: Required for regulated sectors. FSC issues licenses under Banking Act, Securities and Exchange Act, Insurance Act.
• Governance Records: Director and supervisor information publicly searchable on findbiz.nat.gov.tw.
• Signing Authority: Board resolution standard for account opening; notarized POA for external representatives; foreign documents need TECO authentication.
• Address: Conduit universal policy: lease (no time bound) OR utility bill OR bank statement, with utility/bank dated within 90 days. Same evidence satisfies both registered-address and operating-address checks.

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Person roles

When you submit a person on the application body, set their role to one of Conduit’s canonical BusinessPersonRole values. Use this table to map a local corporate-governance title onto the right canonical role.

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Additional fields

Country-specific fields you’ll need to collect during onboarding, beyond the document uploads.

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Notes

• Single-identifier system: Taiwan uses one 8-digit UBN for both registry and tax purposes — there is no separate “company registration number” vs. “tax ID”; both API fields map to the same number.
• GCIS extract does NOT include shareholder list: The publicly downloadable 設立登記表 shows directors and paid-in capital but does not display individual shareholders; obtain 股東名冊 separately from the company.
• Taiwan is not a Hague Apostille member: Foreign documents for use in Taiwan (e.g. foreign corporate shareholder certificates, POAs) must be authenticated via Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in the issuing country, not apostilled.
• Supervisor (監察人) vs. Audit Committee: 股份有限公司 may choose between a supervisor system and an FSC-mandated audit committee; post-2018 reforms allow public companies to opt for the audit committee — verify which system the entity uses when collecting governance documents.