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Article 28 of Taiwan’s Tax Collection Act and the August 2, 2024, Tai Ji Men Decision
The article was amended in 2021 to make it less favorable to taxpayers. But the Taichung High Administrative Court applied the amendment retroactively to unjustly hit Tai Ji Men.
The Precessional Transition and the Tai ji Men Case
A reading of Tai Ji Men and the Tai Ji Men case based on the “transition studies” of French author Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière.
From Aeschylus to Tai Ji Men: When Courts of Law Generate Violence
Decisions of courts of law can both prevent and generate violence. The fathers of the Greek tragedy already knew it, as does—unfortunately—Tai Ji Men.
Injustice Is Served in Taiwan: A Wrong Administrative Decision Against Tai Ji Men
The Tai Ji Men case might have been solved by the Taichung High Administrative Court on August 2. The court missed the opportunity.
Who Stole Tai Ji Men 2007 Victory? An International Webinar
Despite the Supreme Court’s clear verdict in 2007, the Tai Ji Men case was not solved.
The Solution of the Tai Ji Men Case Needs Alexander the Great
The Republic of China (Taiwan) does grant religious liberty to its citizens. It is not enough: it should be founded on it.
Taiwan: The 2007 Tai Ji Men Supreme Court Decision—A Victory or a Frozen Conflict?
It was a real victory but a bitter and incomplete one, as the National Taxation Bureau continued its persecution of Tai Ji Men.
The Tai Ji Men Case: From Indictment to Triumph Before the Supreme Court
When the fabricated Tai Ji Men case started, the fight to restore justice and answer the slander started as well.
Incomplete Justice in Taiwan and the Tai Ji Men Case
While we celebrate the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision of 2007, we should also ask why it failed to achieve its full effects.
Calling for a Solution of the Tai Ji Men Case
We join Tai Ji Men in respectfully asking the government of Taiwan, whose commitment to democracy in a region plagued by non-democratic regimes we appreciate and applaud, to return through a political act the confiscated sacred land to Tai Ji Men and publicly confirm that, as Taiwan’s Supreme Court stated, they never violated the law nor evaded taxes.
It would be a small step for Taiwan’s government, but a crucial one to tell the world Taiwan is truly committed to freedom of religion or belief and to the protection of religious and spiritual minorities that were once persecuted by its authoritarian and post-authoritarian regimes.
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“The Tai Ji Men Case” web site is a project by Action Alliance to Redress 1219 whose aim is to collect and put at the readers’ easy disposal articles, documents, and videos—from academic studies to magazine articles—about the case of Tai Ji Men, a mempai (similar to a school) of qigong, martial arts, and self-cultivation headquartered in Taiwan, which has been victim of discrimination and persecution in its home country since 1996, and whose street protests have generated widespread international protests. Here you can find an exhaustive chronology of the case.
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