Taiwan's finance ministry will name the winners of its mobile tax filing lottery on Friday afternoon, good news for the millions of people — including foreign residents — who filed their taxes by phone.

• Prizes run up to NT$50,000 in cash, plus thousands of digital vouchers worth NT$200 or NT$500.
• Nearly 20,000 prizes will go out, mostly vouchers, from a pool of over 2.6 million eligible households.
• Mobile filing keeps growing fast, up 11% this year to 2.89 million returns.
• Cash prizes over NT$20,000 get a 10% tax taken out automatically before payout.
• Officials warn about scams: real winners are contacted by registered mail or an official text, never by phone, and never asked to pay anything or use an ATM.

Outlook: Winners have until late November to claim, and the government will likely keep leaning on the lottery to push more people onto mobile filing next year.