The Omnibus Bill numbered 7061 entitled “Law on Amending the Current Tax Laws, and Laws, and Decree Laws” has been published on the Official Gazette dated 05.12.2017. Below, we will review the Bill in terms of tax implementations, firstly in the form of headings and then in detail.

OMNIBUS BILL SCOPE AND CONTENT

1. Regulations Regarding the Corporate Tax Law
2. Regulations Regarding Income Tax Law
3. Regulations Regarding Value Added Tax (VAT) Law
4. Regulations Regarding Special Consumption Tax (ÖTV) Law
5. Regulations Regarding Tax Procedural Law
6. Regulations Regarding Expenditure Tax Law
7. Regulations Regarding Law on Inheritance and Succession Tax
8. Regulations Regarding Motor Vehicle Tax Law
9. Regulations Regarding Real Estate Tax Law

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 end of November. Debt must be payed through directly applying to the relevant municipality or though the relevant municipality’s online system.

Property tax is a kind of tax that needs to be paid by owners of real estate such as land, estates, workplace, houses etc. For the properties owned by deed; The person, in whose name the deed has been issued, is the owner of the property and thus liable to pay for real estate tax.

This tax is paid as two equal installments each year. The first payment is made in March, April, or May and the second payment within November.

The “Labor Courts Code no 7036” which introduces a mandatory mediation mechanism, and which governs the establishment, jurisdiction, tasks and trial procedures of the labor courts, has been published in the Official Gazette dated 25.10.2017. Article 3 which governs the condition to apply to the mediator under the Code, and Articles 11 and 12 which contain the “abolished provisions”, will enter into force as of 1 January 2018.

Pursuant to the said Code, applying to a mediator at the first stage, shall be sought for as a cause of action in lawsuits to be instituted with a claim for employee/ employer receivables/compensation or re-employment claim, based on personal or collective labor contracts. Matters in dispute for which one must apply to mediation, including any claim for receivables or compensation, should arise from the employment relation. In this kind of cases, in case one directly initiates a lawsuit, the relevant court shall duly dismiss the case due to lack of cause of action.