In Türkiye, the most significant step towards the protection of personal data is the Personal Data Protection Law (KVKK ) numbered 6698 which entered into force after its publication in the Official Gazette dated April 7, 2016. The law includes provisions that grant time period to the real persons whose data are processed and the natural and legal persons who process such data, until April 7, 2018 for conducting compliance with the law. Similarly, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) entered into force on May 25, 2018 and constituted an important stage in the improvements made towards protection of personal data in Europe.

As it is known, combining the "Withholding and Premium Service Declaration" has been initiated in the city of Kırşehir on 01.06.2017, and followed by Amasya, Bartın and Çankırı on 01.01.2018 according to the provisional Article 2 of the 29983 numbered General Communiqué published in the Official Gazette dated 18.02.2017.

Within the scope of the SSI Circular dated 12.11.2019 and numbered 17519684, the causes of missing days were redetermined for the insured persons (employees) whose document type or law type were different.

For the insured employees who are Turkish citizens and also foreign nationals, where the notification for the same insured must be made through more than one type of document or type of law (R&D Incentive No. 5746, insured employees working in underground and aboveground work fields, insured employees working under the actual service at health service providers etc.), an additional cause of missing day has been defined to the causes of missing days within the scope with the code "25- Other Documents / Day Completion Through Type of Law".

The possibility of checking the missing days for certain types of documents applicable to the foreign employees have been removed from the relevant system.

Sanitation Tax

Sanitation tax is collected from the workplaces which uses solid waste collection and sewage system services every year as two installments (May and November). Second installment must be paid until 30.11.2019. Debt must be paid through directly applying to the relevant municipality or though the relevant municipality’s online system.

General definition is as follows:

Residences, workplaces and the other buildings which use solid waste collection system are subject to Sanitation Tax inside of municipal boundaries and inside of the municipal adjacent area.

If your tax liability is not open at registered municipality, tax payment will be inapplicable. This situation does not constitute a problem until the registered municipalities become an obligated tax payer. If the company is an obligated tax payer or the company needs to have a municipality work license, in this case the payment of this tax will be an obligation and debt will be calculated and applied starting from the establishment date of the company. This tax type is obligatory to be paid by all types of companies.