The First Oral Defence Seminar of Our First Badge Senior
Monday, June 25, 2007
Today is the oral defence seminar for our senior, Mr. Ou Chan-Yen. He is the first badge TIGP student of MCB Programme. Wow, he set a good example that all of us can graduate in 4 years time if you are really good. Hmm....
Representatives of the first year students... Prafulla, Yu-Hsin, Shin-Huei and myself.
Our first badge seniors, the middle one is graduating. Ching-Hang, Chan-Yen and Kien-Thiam.
That's not the most interesting part... The happiest news is that we are free of tax!!!
Thank you so much to Seok Kooi for the information making us urging the TIGP office to clarify for us the "definition" of our stipent received... We were helping ourselves actually...
For details, click here.
So finally, they found out that our stipend is actually a "scholarship", which is tax-free!!! So all what we have paid previously can be returned in the future!!! No more 20% and 6%..!Ha, altogether they have deducted 9 months tax from our stipends (20% for each month), so what the seniors were doing, you all just pay blindly following what others are doing without knowing that you don't have to pay actually??!!
Special thanks to Jessica and Dr. Hong et al. in TIGP office for the clarification. Now we just need to know how to claim back the money... Hehe...
Thank you so much to Seok Kooi for the information making us urging the TIGP office to clarify for us the "definition" of our stipent received... We were helping ourselves actually...
For details, click here.
So finally, they found out that our stipend is actually a "scholarship", which is tax-free!!! So all what we have paid previously can be returned in the future!!! No more 20% and 6%..!Ha, altogether they have deducted 9 months tax from our stipends (20% for each month), so what the seniors were doing, you all just pay blindly following what others are doing without knowing that you don't have to pay actually??!!
Special thanks to Jessica and Dr. Hong et al. in TIGP office for the clarification. Now we just need to know how to claim back the money... Hehe...
These pictures were taken during the student interaction after the PhD defense seminar while waiting for the results...of course he passed la...
We were told that we were exempted from being taxed... Jessica wore so nice on that day, as if her son is graduating... Haha...
We were discussing about qualifying examination with Dr. Chang Wen.
Labels: Institite of Molecular Biology, MCB, Tax, TIGP
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