7166 numbered the “Law on Amending Social Services and Some Other Laws” (the “Law”) has published in the 30694 dated Official Gazette. This Law has made some amendments on Environmental Law, Value Added Tax Law (“VATL”), Unemployment Insurance Law, Special Consumption Tax Law (“SCTL”,“ÖTVK”), Occupational Health and Safety Law and some other Laws. A new wage support incentive to the employers, some VAT and Special Consumption Tax (ÖTV) regulations are among these amendments.

Our explanations regarding some important amendments are as follows

The Ministry of Treasury and Finance has published 2019/2 numbered and 16.01.2019 dated “Sector Announcement on the Enrolment of the Employees to Mandatory Pension System by the Employers”. According to this announcement;

The Employers who have not registered their employees to the system by 27.12.2018, shall enrol their employees until 27.02.2019. Thus, the employers who have performed this obligation by the deadline, shall not be subjected to any penalties. There will also be no deduction implied to the salary of the employees under this scope.

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:

• Income Tax Exempted Food Allowance
• Disablement Degree Discount
• Income Tax Brackets of 2019
• Stamp Tax Rate