Business in Turkey

SSI premium support for private sector establishments, who employ trained candidates of training-on-the job programs carried out by Turkish Employment Organization (İŞKUR), has been extended to the end of 2018. Pursuant to said incentives the employer contribution share of some personnel’s social security premiums will be paid from the Unemployment …

Monthly wage of Interns who are in the scope of compulsory Internship is increased from 381,23 TRY to 435,27 TRY. As we informed you before, the Government support provided from Unemployment Fund for the employers of interns will continue during 2017-2018 school year. (Cabinet Decree 2017/10834, issued in Official Journal …

  General Directorate of International Workforce announced that work permit fees of Syrian Nationals under Temporary Protection are reduced to 200,00 TRY.   As per Turkish Act on Fees No. 492, temporary work permit (up to one year) fee is 537,50 TRY. However, this amount is decreased to 200,00 TRY …

In the New Year, notified occupational codes must reflect the truth; otherwise employers will be liable to an administrative fine.  Article 98/A of Income Tax Law No. 193 stipulated that, deducted taxes with tax bases, employees’ SSI premiums and total earnings, name of occupations and occupational codes as well as …

  We would like to remind you that the workplaces employing 10 (Inc.) to 50 (Exc) personnel will start to enter into contracts with pension companies and offer pension plans to the employees as of 1st January 2018..  As is known, Private Pension System, which is complementary to the mandatory state social security …

An amount of fine can be applied on employee’s wage for the reasons determined by the collective agreements or the employment contracts.  These fines are result of disciplinary punishments imposed by workplace’s disciplinary board, and cannot be more than two days’ wage in a month. Fines are arranged in article …

SSI premiums belong to November 2017 will be paid on 26th of December 2017, instead of end of the month. As a rule, monthly employee and employer social security contributions are notified online by the 23rd of the following month, and premiums are paid at the end of the following …

Application of Withholding Tax and Monthly Premium Service Document is postponed to 1 July 2018. We have informed you that “starting from January 2018 withholding tax returns and SSI e-declarations will be combined in a single form under the name of ‘Withholding Tax and Monthly Premium Service Document;’ and SSI …

In the Communique, dated 3rd November 2017, SSI has announced that working days notification of employees who are subject to “actual service term increment” shall be limited to 26 days in a month. As per Law No. 5510, Article 40, in order to evaluate the work under actual service term …

2017 net minimum wage will not be affected from the shift on taxable income brackets and will not get lower than 1.404,06 TRY between September and December. As is known, Turkey’s net minimum wage is determined as 1.404,06 TRY (minimum living allowance included) throughout 2017. In the application of income …