With the Regulation published in the Official Gazette dated 05.12.2017, significant amendments have been made to the Regulation on Social Security Transactions. The provisions of said Regulation will enter into force as of 01.01.2018.

It was sufficient for the public offices, workplaces which conduct business by drawing up collective labor agreements, as well as private sector companies in respect of the months in which 10 or more insured employees are employed, to state the reasons of the missing days on the monthly premium and service declarations, without the requirement of submitting a separate missing day declaration. By virtue of said Regulation, amendments have been made in respect of the declarations to be made by the workplaces employing less than 10 insured employees.

We have announced the regulation which came into force the on the Social Security Institution Applications on our article dated 13.12.2017.

It has been announced that; “November 2017 social security (SSI) premiums payable for the employee who earns a wage in exchange for the services provided during the first and thirtieth day of a month, along with the deferred February 2017 premiums all shall be paid to the SSI on 26.12.2017, the latest.

Pursuant to the regulation which came into force with the publication on the Official Gazette no. 30261, published on 5.12.2017 the provisional Article 34 titled “Payment Term for Certain Premiums for November 2017” was added to the Social Security Transactions Regulation.

Pursuant to the Law that was published in the Official Gazette no. 29796 on the date 09.08.2016, it has been decided that Withholding Tax Return and Monthly Premium & Service Declarations should be combined under a single return called “Withholding Tax and Premium Service Return”. This was launched for businesses which are taxpayers in Kırşehir on 01/06/2017 ; as Kırşehir was chosen the test zone (banks were excluded from the pilot scheme). It was further decided that this policy would be effective as from 01.01.2018 for all taxpayers that fell within its scope throughout Türkiye.