The Executive and Legislative Yuan remain at loggerheads over their different
versions of the draft amendments to the Allocation of Government Revenues and
Expenditures.

Premier Chuo Rong-tai said today the Cabinet will return the draft passed by
the Legislature on the 14th, which corrected some of the errors in the first
edition passed in December last year.

Chuo described the legislature’s version as "full of contradictions and
totally unfeasible," adding that it has left 34.5 billion NT in
centrally-funded tax revenues unable to be distributed.

The Premier once again urged the opposition lawmakers to consider the
Cabinet's version of the draft, saying if the Legislature can come to a
consensus, he will provide detailed fiscal calculations for the local
governments.

That’s the information KMT mayors, including Lu Xiu-yan and Hou Yo-yi, had
been demanding, saying that without it they wouldn’t know whether to support
the Cabinet’s version.

That draft has yet to make it into the Legislative Committee for its first
review.

Meanwhile the DPP legislative caucus is calling on the opposition parties to
give the Executive Yuan a chance to explain its version of the draft bill.

(JL)