• Income Tax Exempted Food Allowance

Meal allowance tax exemption amount that is applied as of 1st January 2016 was announced in 290 serial numbered Income Tax General Communique on 25.12.2015 with Official Gazette. According to this announcement, meal allowance, which is provided by the employer outside of the workplace and workplace outbuildings as defined in the Income Tax Law's 23rd Articles, exemption amount is defined as 13,70 TL for 2016.

Many corporations prefer using cars of non-taxpayers or their personnel to process their trading operations due to financial advantages. Procedures and points that require close attention will be mentioned in this article.

Whether it is one-time trading operation or multiple, in order to avoid any possible vagueness and identify responsibilities of both parties, a contract must be agreed upon and signed. It is beneficial to include issues in the contract such as which party will make the payments of car insurance and vehicle maintenance. In this trading operation, two parties, car renter and car owner, will have different responsibilities. Therefore, firstly, we will examine the ‘car renter’.²

With the expansion in the usage area of electronic legder and electronic invoice through the Tax Procedural Law General Notification published on 20th June 2015, we point out to the subjects of which taxpayers have obligations within this context and the points to consider.

According to the notification, the taxpayers, who have gross sales revenue amounting to 10 Million TL and above within 2014 and its following years, are obligated to change over to electronic ledger and electronic invoice application as of 1st of January 2016. According to the notification, summarize; the taxpayers who obtained license from EPDK (Energy Market Regulatory Authority) due to the commodities stated in the List Number I annexed to the ÖTV Law (Special Consumption Tax) and the taxpayers, that manufacture, construct and import the products stated in the List Number III annexed to the ÖTV Law, are obligated to change over to e-ledger and e-invoice application.

Government's support to promote the Individual Pension System (IPS/BES) has recently received a high level of attention. The greatest factor that effects the achievement of the provider entities regarding their goals on IPS, is mainly due to the society being unwilling to feel the burden of a concern for their future, the people desiring to make their living in the future through a fixed level of income or their needs of a raise on retirement salaries, which is insufficient in current conditions. The success of IPS/BES has served as another tool for other saving opportunities to enter in our lives.