It’s hard to get out of the trap of fraudulently claiming assistant fees! The Blue and Green parties wanted to join forces to "decriminalize" Lawyer Zhang Kaixin explains the laws related to assistant fees, whether the requirements are unclear, and the results of the constitutional interpretation

It’s hard to get out of the trap of fraudulently claiming assistant fees! The Blue and Green parties once wanted to join forces to "decriminalize" │ Mirror News reporters Yan Kaixu and Chen Xinrui

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There are endless cases of legislators suspected of defrauding assistant fees, especially when they were serving as county and city councilors. For example, Hsinchu Mayor Gao Hongan, former Taipei City Councilor Lin Yingmeng, New Taipei City Vice Speaker Chen Wenzhi, etc., were all sentenced. Even though the Legislative Yuan passed the third reading last year to adjust the assistant fee subsidy, many councilors still felt it was not enough and continued to pay out of their own pockets to maintain office operations, but corruption cases still occur again and again, and it seems to have become a historical common karma.

Lawyer Zhang Kaixin of Fidelity Law Offices said that in Gao Hongan's assistant fee case, the judge believed that the relevant regulations on assistant fees were unclear and therefore requested a constitutional interpretation, but the Grand Justices did not accept the application. Therefore, under the current circumstances, the misappropriation of assistant fees has not been decriminalized, and legislators still need to abide by the current relevant regulations on assistant fees. If legislators use assistant fees for personal purposes, they may still be held criminally liable.

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