According to the 27998389 - 010.06.02.87 numbered Circular published by the Ministry of Treasury and Finance on 08.01.2019 with the subject ‘Financial and Social Rights’, the coefficients used to calculate the wage of a public officers have been revised effective 01.01.2019.

Details on the above-mentioned subject are outlined below.

The “General Communique of the Law no. 7143 on Re-adjustment of Taxes and Some Other Debts” (the “Communique”) has published by the Ministry of Treasury and Finance (the Directorate of Revenue Administration) on 05.01.2019 dated Official Gazette. Herein this Communique has determined the procedure and principles of time extension for two months that is given for the re-adjustment.

According to this, the debtors who could not make their payments until 28 December 2018 and lost the right to apply for re-adjustment, shall benefit from the re-adjustment by making related payments with late payment interest until 28 February 2019.

As of 01.01.2019, a new application of incentive has started with “Communique on Procedures and Principles Regarding the Benefit from Employer’s Share Incentive of Unemployment Insurance Premium in Work Places Which Are Classified as Very Dangerous and Have More Than 10 Employees” (the “Communique”) which was published on 31.12.2018, in the 4th Recurrent Official Gazette. According to the Law on Occupational Health and Security numbered 6331, workplaces which are considered as very dangerous and have a minimum of 10 employees will receive a premium incentive for a period of 3 years, if there has been no occupational accident resulting in death or incapacity for the last three years.

Briefly, conditions to benefit from the incentive for the employers are juxtaposed in the Communique as below:

As is known, the default interest rate announced every January by the T.R. Central Bank has been applied in case there is no default interest rate is determined in a contract or related clause is invalid regarding the good or service supply, according to the clause 7 of the Art. 1530 of the Turkish Commercial Code.