Per the announcement on 09.02.2020 with the number 98547999-010.99-E.2339831;

The below regulations have been located within the scope of Social Security Law no: 5510, Article 94:

• For the disabled individuals who have not completed medical examination within the related period, disability payment would be stopped as of the payment period start date after medical examination period.
• The disability payment start dates have been regulated for the individuals whose medical examinations have been completed and if the disability statuses have not changed.

Amendments have been made to the Recycling Contribution Share Declaration General Communique, which was published on 4/4/2019 in the Official Gazette numbered 30735, with the Communique (Row No: 2) on Amending Recycling Contribution Share Declaration General Communique (Row No: 1) published on 5/2/2020, in the Official Gazette numbered 31030.

Within the scope of the related Communique apart from the plastic bags that have been included in the declaration, amendments have been made on other products as well.

• Application of recycling contribution share for plastic bags has been included to the scope of the law on 01.01.2019.
• Application of recycling contribution share for rubbers, accumulators, batteries, mineral oil, electric and electronic appliances, medicines, plastic packages, glass packages, wooden packages have been included to the scope of the law as of 01.01.2020.

Certain amendments have been made in Recycling Contribution Share Declaration General Communique, as products other than plastic bags are included to the scope of the application.

With the Communiqué published in the 31034 numbered Official Gazette on 09/02/2020; the application of Withholding and Premium Service Declaration in the entire Türkiye has been postponed to 01.03.2020.

In addition, new pilot cities have been added and the application dates have been determined as below:

• For the tax residents in Kırşehir, the application was started to be executed on 01/06/2017
• For the tax residents in Amasya, Bartın and Çankırı; the application was started to be executed on 01/01/2018
• For the tax residents in Bursa, Eskişehir and Konya; the application was started to be executed on 01/01/2020 (Except the banks within the scope of Income Tax communique with No: 281)
• The application for entire Türkiye will be effective as of 01/03/2020 with the declaration period of March/2020.

Per the circular no: 2020/01 dated as 27.01.2020;

The five points discount on Social Security premiums would not be applicable for the corporations within the scope of Social Security Law no: 506, temporary Article 20 (e.g. banks, insurance and reassurance companies, etc).

These corporations can benefit from the incentives which are within the scope of Law no: 4447, Article 10 and Law no: 4857, Article 30.

The points on that regulation will be applicable as of 01.02.2019

Please find that published announcement dated 27.01.2020 on the link below for detailed info (Published in Turkish)

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