Miaoli County councilors question the annual increase in fine budget, punishing minor offenses and abusing county residents

Miaoli County Councilor Yu Yaodong (right) questioned the Miaoli County Government's budget for fines and fines next year. They are increasing every year, which may lead to fines for small amounts, which is basically abusing the county people. (Photo by reporter Zhang Xunteng)

The Miaoli County Council will hold a regular meeting today (2). County Councilor Yu Yaodong questioned the county government’s total budget for next year’s total budget of about 335.29 million yuan in fines and compensation revenue. Who instructed it, so the budget increases every year, which may lead to fines for minor crimes, which is a fundamental abuse of 530,000 county residents. County Magistrate Zhong Dongjin responded that he will never increase fines, and this is only an estimate of the Finance Department, and will not issue fines based on the budget.

The regular meeting of the Miaoli County Council started today. Yan Xiangru, Director of the Accounting Department, explained the preparation of the general budget for next year. The revenue from fines and compensation for next year will be approximately 335.29 million yuan, an increase of 12.26 million yuan from this year, and the revenue from major fines and fines has increased.

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Yu Yaodong questioned whether the increase in fines and fines every year was the instruction of the county magistrate, police chief, or secretary-general? In particular, the police's technological enforcement is very poor. The policeman is sitting in front of the video tape. If you want to increase the number by 200 million today, he will punish you at the first sight, and some of them will be fined for minor crimes. Don't go to the people to fine you when you have no money. This is basically abusing the 530,000 county residents.

Guo Chunmei, Director of the Finance Department, responded that the Finance Department compiles data on the penalties and liabilities of each bureau in accordance with relevant laws and regulations. Zhong Dongjin also explained that he hoped that people would not be fined if they did not violate the rules; as for fines and fines, they were not only for traffic violations at the police station, but also for violations of hillside conservation and improvement, and the Finance Department only estimated the figures and would not act according to the compiled figures. He also asked all bureaus to try not to fine people, and everyone is a good person. However, sometimes the central government comes to clamp down, and the county government has to impose fines, but it also tries to deal with it leniently.

In response to Miaoli County Councilor Yu Yaodong's question, County Magistrate Zhong Dongjin responded that the Finance Department prepared only budget estimates. (Photo by reporter Zhang Xunteng)