


Turkey 1% e-commerce withholding tax
Jan 2025 1% withholding tax on e-commerce intermediaries The Revenue Administration of Türkiye has published Presidential Decision No. 9284, introducing a 1% withholding tax on payments intermediaries make to service providers operating under Law No. 6563 governing electronic commerce. This measure becomes effective from 1

Turkey leverages AI to fight tax fraud
Turkey joins the movement to deploy AI machine learning to take on VAT and tax fraud Turkey is set to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) in its efforts to combat tax evasion, following in the footsteps of countries like Greece and the Austria. The Treasury and

Turkey ends Notifications of Sales & Purchases reporting Oct 2024
Compliance simplification: Ending forms Ba and Bs reports on sales and purchase transactions Turkey’s Revenue Administration has announced a significant regulatory change regarding tax reporting requirements for businesses. A draft communiqué has been prepared, which proposes terminating the requirement for taxpayers to submit Notification on

Turkey e-invoice e-Fatura and e-Arşiv update

Turkey raises VAT 2% to 20% July 2023
10 July 2023 VAT standard rate increases from 18% to 20% Turkey has gazetted on 7 July 2023 a 2% increase in its VAT rate from 10th July 2023. The reduced VAT rate will also increase from 8% to 10%. The 1% reduced rate on

Turkey imposes QR Code requirement for VAT e-invoices
From 1 September 2023, e-fatura invoices must include QR Codes The Turkish Revenue Authority is to require taxpayers to include Quick Response Codes (QR Codes) on the following tax documents: E-factura invoices for B2B and B2G transactions (Turkish e-invoices) E-arsiv for all B2C transactions, plus

Turkey implements 2% Accommodation Tax 2023
Delayed tax on overnight accommodation services introduced 1 January 2023 The much delayed Turkish 2% Accommodation Tax was implemented from 1 January 2023. Dec 2021: COVID-19 economic fallout puts back new tax implementation date The Turkish government had pushed back again the introduction of its

Turkey VAT guide

Turkey further VAT cuts
Inflation hits 62% in March prompts more VAT rate cuts On 28 March, the Turkey President, Tayyip Erdogan, announced a cut from 18% to 8% for a range of goods including: bathroom supplies such as soap and detergents, napkins and toilet paper baby nappies. restaurant