05January2024

General Communiqué on Inflation Adjustment Published

The Official Gazette of Turkey published the General Communiqué on the Tax Procedure Law (Serial No: 555) on December 30, 2023, under issue number 32415 (2nd Extraordinary). This communiqué details the procedures and principles for adjusting financial statements for inflation for the fiscal year 2023 and subsequent periods.

The General Communiqué on Inflation Adjustment was issued with the aim of eliminating the effects of ongoing high inflation on financial statements and mitigating the adverse effects of inflation on taxation.

The regulation includes:

Fundamental principles to be considered during the adjustment process,
Financial statements that are subject to the adjustment,
Obligations for conducting inflation adjustments,
Assets in the balance sheet that are subject to adjustment,
Adjustments to be made to the balance sheet for the fiscal year ending in 2023,
Inflation adjustment processes for the fiscal year 2024 and subsequent periods, along with other matters of special importance in the application.

Under this application, balance sheets for the fiscal year ending in 2023 for taxpayers subject to balance sheet basis in income and corporate tax, as well as those for taxpayers with a special accounting period ending in 2024, will be included. This includes non-monetary items in the assets and liabilities of the balance sheet.

Monetary items, however, will not be subject to this application.

The profit or loss arising from the inflation adjustment as of the end of the 2023 fiscal year will not be considered in determining the period's income.

This communiqué took effect upon its date of publication.

For more information, you can access the Official Gazette here. (In Turkish)

Should you have any queries or need further details, please contact your customer representative.

Author Selma Kıy, Category Taxation Law

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