With 28.02.2020 dated Tax Procedural Law Circular no: 124; deadline for submission of the Recycling Contribution Share Declarations, and deadline for the payment of the accrued shares have been changed from the end of 02.03.2020, to the end of 30.03.2020, Monday.

You can access our previous publishing on GEKAP Declaration from here.

Relevant circular in Turkish regarding the subject can be accessed from here.

There have been certain changes in Value Added Tax General Application Communiqué with The Communiqué on Amending Value Added Tax General Application Communiqué (Serial No. 30).

Article 1 of the Communiqué regarding the Withholding Practice in the Services Provided During the Operating Period Regarding the Health Facilities Built with the Public Private Cooperation Model will enter into force on 01.03.2020; while other regulations became effective as of publication date.

Within the scope of regulation, amendments are as below;

With the Law on Amending Digital Service Tax No. 7193, Certain Laws and Statutory Decree No. 375 published on the Official Gazette No. 30971 and dated 07.12.2019; Real Estate Tax Law No. 1319 was regulated, and Valuable Housing Tax has been issued.

With the Bill of Law regarding Geographic Information Systems and Amending Certain Laws, which was discussed in Turkish Grand National Assembly, it has been decided to conduct certain amendments in the Valuable Housing Tax and make certain additions, including postponing the tax for 1 year. As per the decision, Valuable Housing Tax has been postponed 1 year and first declaration will be submitted in 2021.

According to the regulations, recent amendments are as below;

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.