This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
A final, non-appealable criminal acquittal is supposed to be the end of a case. For Tai Ji Men, the 2007 Supreme Court ruling closed the criminal matter and, according to Tai Ji Men and its advocates, opened a different one that has run for years since.
The claim, as Tai Ji Men and the Action Alliance to Redress 1219 present it, concerns a tax bill for the 1992 tax year that Taiwan's National Taxation Bureau continued to maintain after the criminal acquittal became final. Where five other disputed tax years were reportedly corrected to zero by 2019, the 1992 bill was not, on the stated ground, as these sources report it, that a 2006 Supreme Administrative Court ruling specific to that year had already become final before the criminal case concluded, leaving no further avenue to contest it. Acting on that unresolved bill, Taiwan's Administrative Enforcement Agency in 2020 seized land in Miaoli that Tai Ji Men had intended for a self-cultivation center; the reported auction of the land failed, and the property was subsequently taken by the state.
This atlas treats that account as a real and documented claim, not as an established finding. Every source available for the post-2007 tax narrative is either Tai Ji Men's own advocacy body or Bitter Winter, an outlet aligned with the same CESNUR-linked researchers who cover the case sympathetically; independent Taiwanese reporting on the criminal acquittal exists, but no independent account of the 1992 bill's specific finality or the tax bureau's own stated reasoning was found in this research pass, and no statement from Taiwan's tax authorities addressing the dispute directly was located either.
What is not in dispute is the shape of the claim: a completed criminal case, and a separate administrative dispute that, on Tai Ji Men's own account, was still unresolved as of the most recent commemorative writing found on the twentieth anniversary of the original acquittal.