The Tai Ji Men Case: A Legal Analysis
Tai Ji Men, a Taiwan-based menpai (similar to a “school”) of Qigong, martial arts, and self-cultivation was among the victims of a 1996 politically motivated crackdown on independent spiritual movements. Although his leader and his co-defendants were eventually acquitted of all charges, including ta...
| Published in: | The journal of CESNUR |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2021]
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The journal of CESNUR
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| Further subjects: | B
Spiritual Movements in Taiwan
B Taoism B Hong Tao-Tze B Tai Ji Men Tax Case B Esoteric Taoism B Taxes and New Religious Movements B Taxes and Religion B Tai Ji Men |
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| Summary: | Tai Ji Men, a Taiwan-based menpai (similar to a “school”) of Qigong, martial arts, and self-cultivation was among the victims of a 1996 politically motivated crackdown on independent spiritual movements. Although his leader and his co-defendants were eventually acquitted of all charges, including tax evasion, the National Taxation Bureau (NTB) continued to claim, to this very day, that for the fiscal year 1992 taxes had been evaded and a payment was due. Since Tai Ji Men refused to compromise for reasons of principle, in 2020 land belonging to his leader, Dr. Hong Tao-Tze, was auctioned and confiscated. The paper analyzes the Tai Ji Men case, which has attracted international interest, from the point of view of Taiwanese law, and concludes that the human rights and rights as taxpayers of Dr. Hong and Tai Ji Men were seriously violated. |
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| ISSN: | 2532-2990 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of CESNUR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.26338/tjoc.2021.5.4.3 |