Let me release another piece of information:
According to the study of Japan, the real size of economy in Taiwan
is at least twice as large as officially announced. In most Taiwanese companies, Two buget books are prepared, one is for tax purpose, and
the other is the real one !!!! A lot of people work on two jobs, one is in the daytime, and the other one is in the evening! The second jobs, most of the time is paid by cash and people do not pay tax or pay min tax. People in Taiwan had a lot of savings, official data showed that USD40000 per family in average cash in the bank, not including other properties. The official tax rate is also very low,
with income of 70K USD, you paid only 13%, and you can deduct your
interest from your mortgage payment , tuition payment for your children, expense to raise your children under 18 and old paraents!!
As a result, people had a lot of money to spend, and which makes the
economy very dynanmic and grow very fast. Mesade Benze sells the best
in Taiwan around the world. Cars in Taiwan are priced at twice of that in US, example: Benze 300 in Taiwan is priced at around 125k USD
in Taiwan (in US is 67k USD), and people buy benze just like crazy here, almost every one out of 30 cars driven on the street is a benze.
Honda is priced at around 22k in Taiwan and people think its very cheap!!!!
It is really strange that officially the Taiwanese income is lower than that of US, but in real life , it looks like the Taiwanese are much more rich. I do not quite understand this phenomina!!!It is the
same situation in China !!!!So, talking about PCs, the 10% price hike
is really nothing for the Taiwanese consumers(just pay additional 100 to 150USD). They will continue buying PCs as before, and I did not see
any impact at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
