Business in Turkey

Daily Allowance is the money paid to employees in daily basis while they are working away from their workplace whether within the same country or abroad. Tax exempt daily allowance amounts are determined by General Directorate of Budget and Fiscal Control in line with Travel Expense Law No.6245 twice a …

During the recent years SSI “Directorate of Fighting Unregistered Employment has developed new measures to prevent illicit employment. One of the effective ways of spotting unregistered employees is the documents received from state institutions and organizations (banks, police headquarters, Turkish post agency-PTT etc.).

Attraction Area Program that aims at providing incentives to the investments in 23 provinces of eastern and southeastern Anatolia has been rearranged by a Cabinet Decree issued in Official Journal numbered 11201, dated 25 January 2018. Attraction Area Program used to provide supports on advisory services, land allocation, building construction, …

Work accident notification of a foreign employee should be made manually. Foreign employee who had a work accident must be immediately notified to security forces (police or gendarmeries) by the employer. Notification to SSI will be made within 3 work days following the date accident is occurred. Weekends and public …

What is minimum living allowance? Part of the wage that constitutes the amount of minimum subsistence level is not subject to income tax for real persons in Turkey legislation. Minimum Living Allowance (MLA/AGİ)  is calculated on the basis of annual minimum wage regardless of the total earning, and in accordance …

Transferring an employee (as exit and re-employment) between the workplaces belongs to same employer may cause loss of insured days in the month of February. In Turkey’s labor legislation number of working days within a month is considered 30, regardless of the actual number of days the month includes in. …

Administrative fines to be applied according to Labor Law No. 4857 are increased 14,57% in 2018 according to revaluation rate determined for the new year. Amounts of the fines for the violations specified article 98 to 107 are as follows.

International Workforce Law No. 6735, published in Official Gazette numbered 29800 dated 13 August 2016, has replaced the former Work Permit Law No 4817 and introduced many changes as regard to work permit regulations of foreigners as well as new amounts of administrative fines for illegal employment of foreigners and …

Administrative fines to be applied by the Social Security Institution are increased in 2018 in parallel to minimum wage hike. Amounts of the fines for the violations specified article 102 of Social Insurance and General Health Insurance Law No. 5510 are as follows.