Law number 7194 for taxation of digital services and Law number 375 for the changes in tax legislation has been published in the official gazette on 7 Dec 2019.

Significant changes have been made in the context of taxes with this Law. Featured changes can be summarized as follows;

Digital Services Tax

As per the new regulation; the revenue resulting from various digital services like any advertisement service, selling activities in digital platform, any services allow digital activities as watching, listening, saving on digital platforms will be subject to taxation.

Within the scope of Ministry of Treasury and Finance Revenue Administration Directorate Protocol dated 26.11.2019 and numbered 92467168 – 030.03 (76-01) – E. 162711; it has been decided that private banks’ tax collection applications through all channels including headquarters, branches, online banking, ATM and phone banking are to be terminated as of 01.01.2020.

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.

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.