When does a newly covered entity in Taiwan start paying the carbon fee under the September 2026 amendment?
Under amended Article 3-1, the reporting and payment obligation begins the year after the entity completes its greenhouse gas inventory registration and third-party verification, ensuring a verified emissions baseline exists before the duty applies.
Did the amendment change the NT$300 carbon fee rate?
No. The NT$300 per tCO2e rate and the core obligations to inventory, verify, and meet designated reduction targets are unchanged; the amendment addresses timing and credit accounting, not the price.
How are early-action reduction credits (先期專案) treated after the amendment?
Amended Article 9 keeps the existing three-year usage deadline, deduction cap, and 0.1 deduction ratio ceiling for high carbon-leakage-risk entities, and clarifies how pre-fee credits bridge into the carbon fee system without expanding the deduction limits.
What does the anti-double-counting rule in Article 17 require?
Reduction measures that received a government subsidy cannot have their emission benefits counted toward the certified excess reduction above a voluntary plan's designated target, preventing the same tonne from being claimed twice.