Taxpayers will be required to sign up for the MOF's tax-filing website by entering three numbers: their smartphone number, their Republic of China identification card number (or Alien Resident Certificate number) and their National Health Insurance (NHI) card number, the MOF said in a press release.
The smartphone filing system will allow taxpayers to confirm important tax information, such as their income, tax deductions and tax exemptions.
However, taxpayers will not be able to adjust this information, except for changing their mailing address, if they choose to use their smartphones to file their taxes, it said.
Those who need to make other changes will still need to use their computers to access the MOF's tax filing system, it added.
The MOF estimates that about 4 million taxpayers will be able to use their smartphones or tablets to file their taxes this year.
Previously, taxpayers in Taiwan could also file their taxes online but needed to first certify their identity by inserting their NHI card into a card reader attached to their computers.
Meanwhile, the MOF said that given the fact that Taiwan has done a good job in containing the COVID-19 pandemic and taxpayers can now file their taxes online, this year's annual tax filing season will only last for a month, from May 1-31.
The MOF extended the 2020 tax-filing season to two months between May and June, from the original one month, to avoid overcrowding in the nation's tax bureau offices due to the coronavirus pandemic.
