- Draw up guidelines for policy and the preparation standards for the general budget (8 months before the start of the fiscal year.)
- Check and ratify the competent authorities’ basic quota for estimates of expenditures (7 months before the start of the fiscal year.)
- The competent authorities draw up the budget estimate (7 months before the start of the fiscal year.)
- Review the budget estimates of the competent authorities and verify the competent authorities’ budget quota (4-7 months before the start of the fiscal year.)
- The competent authorities prepare the unit and director budgets, within the budget quota range, and sends it to DBAS which is compiled into general budget proposal of New Taipei City (4 months before the start of the fiscal year.)
- The general budget proposal is submitted to the municipal administrative meeting for approval before it is sent to the New Taipei City Council for examination (3 months before the start of the fiscal year.)