The project teams, under the supervision of the Environmental Protection Administration, have successfully implemented the air pollution control fee declaration, completed the establishment of consulting service offices to provide diversified convenient services to the people, and organized eleven air pollution control fee declaration promotional seminars. Moreover, experienced air pollution control fees evaluation engineers were stationed to execute the data establishment, primary review, account verification, and analysis of the air pollution control fee declaration for public and private institutes, thereby fully achieving the downsizing of administrative resources, simplifying the declaration procedures, and showing the administrative performance of the government. Up to date, this plan has accepted a total number of 21,271 applications for the data establishment and primary review of air pollution control fee declaration for four quarters (one year.) Among them, 13,785 applications were filed by written documentation whereas 7,486 applications were filed by the Internet. The annual average collection rate reaches 98.2%, and the premium collected is NT$ 1,448,099 thousands. In order to put the levy system into practice, this project teams assist different counties and cities with the consolidation of payment reminder operations. Moreover, the “Air Pollution Fee Declaration Management System” established by this plan immediately screened a list of both public and private institutes that have not yet declared the fees, thereby assisting the Environmental Protection Administration with the execution of the payment reminder operations. Moreover, pursuant to the stipulations governing the procedures for payment collection, a total number of 4,636 cases for different quarters were screened for the designated air pollution fee audit list, which was then transferred to the audit units for re-examination, to ensure the accuracy of the filing data. In addition to this, ozone is the current national index pollutant for poor air quality. To alleviate ozone pollution and accelerate NOx reduction, air pollution control fee rate system was adjusted with reference to the successful experience from advanced nations in “progressive emission charge system”. It is expected to effectively improve current ozone pollution, reduce pollutant emission from the industry and stop environment quality worsening. This project has continued the successful experiences achieved in the previous years by implementing the maintenance and functionality expansion of the air pollution control fee computerization system and providing service stationary air pollution sources with electronic filing services over the Internet. Therefore, this can greatly shorten the declaration time, effectively reduce fee calculation errors, and increase declaration accuracy. Also, assisted by the E-query website, related services can be managed by digital rights management, information query, and downloading of declaration information and updated statistics. Also, payment reminder services are enhanced. In summary, the purpose of this project is to achieve freedom of information and sharing of resources.

Air Pollution Control Fee, Declaration, Audit, Policy Research, Progressive emission charge system