Redeem

You may argue our financial secretary is not doing all that bad this time: He gives every citizen HK$6000 and redeems the same amount of income tax in addition.

Alas, I won't discuss the problems here - be they political, economical, or administrative ones. Just that I have a déjà vu feeling of reading the classic novel of Jin Yong (金庸) - The Deer and the Cauldron (鹿鼎記):

On one occasion, Wei Xiaobao (韋小寶) fell into the hands of a group of his adversaries. In order to escape, he threw a whole pile of cash (銀票) into the air. In no time, all his enemies were too busy to catch the flying money and lost their eyes on this Xiaoguizi (小桂子), who managed an easy escape immediately. (見鹿鼎記第十二回: 語帶滑稽吾是戲, 弊清摘發爾如神.)

Well, I know it is not appropriate to compare our senior government official to a pseudo-eunuch of the Qing time.

It is an insult to the the Duke of Deer Cauldron.

PS. There is actually a fine line between tax redeem and reduction of tax rate that may skip your eyes. In short, the former is a policy of communism while the latter provides incentive for the population to be independent.

I won't elaborate further.