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Lai, quoted in a Presidential Office release reported by CNA, credited surging global demand for AI, high-performance computing, and cloud services with lifting projected 2027 general revenue to NT$3.93 trillion, enough to fund the payment with a balanced budget and what he called "effectively no new borrowing."
Taiwan's statistics agency, the DGBAS, raised its 2026 GDP growth forecast to 11.05% on August 14, up from 9.64% in May and the fastest pace since the economy expanded 12.75% in 1987. Output grew 14.15% year on year in the first half, and the agency now expects merchandise exports to reach $903.6 billion this year, a 41.19% jump and the sharpest increase in five decades.
Servers and related goods should account for almost 40% of those exports, up from around 30% in 2025, according to DGBAS statistics department head Tsai Yu-tai. Taiwanese manufacturers, including Foxconn, Quanta, and Wistron, build most of the world's AI servers and rack-scale systems, and that output has already pushed U.S. imports from Taiwan past imports from China for the first time in decades. The concentration extends to equities: TSMC alone represents about 40% of a Taiwanese stock market that overtook the UK's in total value earlier this year.
Lai acknowledged that the boom hasn't reached everyone, pointing to workers in services, traditional industries, and small businesses outside the tech sector. DGBAS figures back him up, as non-tech exports rose just 8.6% in the first seven months of the year, a fraction of the headline rate.
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/taiwan-to-pay-every-resident-314-from-its-ai-boom-windfall#main
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