According to the Article 2 of Industrial Registry Law No. 6948 (In Turkish), industrial businesses must be registered to industrial registry and receive a registration certificate.

Companies, which have industrial registry certificate, are required to declare their "Annual Operating Statements” including the information that belongs to preceding year within the first four months of every year.

With the Official Gazette dated the 31st of March 2023 and numbered 32149; Presidential Decision with the number 7015 has been published regarding the technology development and R&D regions under the emergency state.

With that decision, in the calculation of the income tax withholding incentive within the scope of the “Technology Development Zones Law” with the number 4691 and the “Supporting Research, Development, and Design Activities Law” with the number 5746, the income tax incentive rate that is applied for the time performed outside of R&D and technology development regions, will be applied as a hundred percent (for the whole working period) during the period of emergency state in the provinces were affected by the earthquake and declared as the state of emergency as of 6th February 2023.

The submission and payment deadline of 2022 Annual Income Tax Declaration, Ba-Bs Forms, e-Ledger signature and the upload date of Electronic Ledger Certificates have been postponed.

The Revenue Administration announced below:

General Communique No: 2 has been published on the Official Gazette (dated March 25, 2023 and numbered 32143) for the procedures and principles regarding the allowances provided to the earthquake victim employees.

1. What are the conditions for this exemption?

To be able to benefit from the exemption, this allowance;

• Should be made from February 6, 2023, to July 31, 2023 (including these dates),
• Should be made for the employees whose her/himself, spouse, child, or parents were affected by the earthquake.
• If it is cash, should not exceed 50,000 TRY in total.
• Should be made in addition to the current salary, premium, bonus, etc.