The Ministry of Finance released preliminary tax statistics for April on the 12th. Driven by the rise in both stock prices and trading volume in Taiwan, the net amount of securities transaction tax collected in April reached NT$54.6 billion, a year-on-year increase of 2.1 times. This not only set a new record for a single month in history, but also exceeded the NT$50 billion mark for the second consecutive month. The cumulative securities transa…