Since July 1, 2009, if receiving a court notice to submit judicature fees, costs for claims, execution, or prepayments for consumer debt cases that are under NT$ 20,000, you may make payments at nearby convenience stores.
President Lai of the Judicial Yuan said that, the recent policy focus of the Judicial Yuan is to “serve the public;” more specifically, the public experiences better and more efficient court services, no matter litigations, non-litigation cases, or compulsory enforcements. This requires continuous effects in reforming relevant systems. The authorized fee collection in convenience stores is a measure to serve the public and facilitate judicial services commencing from July 1.
To make it more convenient for the public to pay judicial fees, since October 2007, the Judicial Yuan offered various fee collection services at the court of first instance and court of second instance. The public can make payments in person, mail remittance to the court, pay fees at financial institutions, or use automated teller machines (ATMs) or on-line ATMs. Since February 2009, the above measures were applied to the Supreme Administrative Court, High Administrative Courts, and Intellectual Property Court. Until recently, more than 10,000 payments have been made through this diversified channel, with an amount of NT$ 270 million. However, this only constitutes about 1/4 of the total fees. To better serve the public and create a more convenient fee collection system, convenience stores joined the roll to collect judicial fees since July 1, 2009. In addition, based on the principle of user charges, each transaction is charged a fee of NT$ 8.
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