Legislation

30April2015

Amendments in Labour Legislations with the Bill Omnibus Nr. 6645

6645 enumerated 'Law amending Work Place Health and Safety and other laws and enactments' has been published in the Reiterated Official Gazette on 23/04/2015 and entered into force on the date of publishing. With the Bill Omnibus, which includes 89 articles, many regulations, including Labour Law, Social Security and Income Tax have been subject to important changes. This article consists of briefing on the most significant amendments concerning employees and employers.

Category Social Security Law and Legislation, Taxation Law, Labor Law

15April2015

Overview of the Law no. 6337 which introduces government support and grants on Marriage, Housing and Child

Law 6337 amending certain laws and enactments introduces certain government grants and support in the Family and Social Policies enactment enumerated 633:

Supplementary Article 2 – Marriage Savings Account and Government Benefit (entry into force: 07/04/2015)

Supplementary Article 3 – Mortgage Savings Account and Government Benefit (entry into force: 07/04/2015)

Supplementary Article 4 – Child Birth Benefit (entry into force: 15/05/2015)

Category Taxation Law

13April2015

Resource Support Fund for Export is Repealed

Resource Support Fund Taxation, significant cost for export companies, is reduced to 0% contribution rate for certain export goods.

The Cabinet has listed the goods for the %0 category as: animal and plant based oils, metal ores, cinder, organic chemicals, plastics and by-products, wood and wooden goods, glass and glass goods, iron and steel, copper and copper goods, aluminum and aluminum goods.

The related enactment can be viewed here (available in Turkish).

Category Taxation Law

10April2015

Imposed Penalties for Not Submitting E-Declaration and Notification of Retrospective Tax Obligations

According to the Communique of Tax Procedure Law No. 449 published in the Official Gazette dated 10.04.2015, irregularity fines for not submitting e-declaration and notification of retrospective tax obligations shall not be imposed anymore.

Due to tax evaluation reports, the application of the liable, or tax office identification, it is possible to open a liability retrospectively. However, for declarations and notifications not submitted online and in time, there is a special irregularity fine. In cases opened against such fines, judicial authorities decided these fines shall not be imposed, which became a permanent decision. In order to solve the problems arising for such cases, the “Financial Administration” made a regulation and stated in communique that there will be no longer irregularity fines imposed.

On the other hand, because there was no declaration made for the liable persons in question, retrospective tax will continue to be levied, tax loss fine will continue to be imposed for taxes not paid in time, and irregularity fines will continue to be imposed for not declaring start of the employment in time by Law No. 325/I-/.

Category Taxation Law