The Official Gazette of April 30, 2024, has published the General Communiqué No. 560 under the Tax Procedure Law (“Communiqué“), announcing a pivotal regulation for the upcoming fiscal period. According to the Communiqué, tax inflation adjustments as stipulated by Article 298/A of the Tax Procedure Law (“TPL“) will not be applied, a decision made public...
The Revenue Administration Presidency of Republic of Türkiye published the Tax Procedure Law (“TPL“) Circular No. VUK-167/2024-5 (“Circular“) titled “Extension of the Corporate Tax Return Filing Period” on 26 April 2024. This Circular extends the filing deadlines for the 2023 accounting period Corporate Tax Declarations, initially due by 30 April 2024, as well as the...
SRP-Legal Founder, Managing Partner & TÜSİAD Data Protection and Technology Law Working Group President Att. Dr. Çiğdem Ayözger Öngün took part as a moderator in the panel titled “Artificial Intelligence and Law, Digital Change and Redrawing Legal Boundaries” within the scope of TÜSİAD Silicon Valley Network Artificial Intelligence Webinar Series on March 12. The session...
Law No. 7499 on the Amendment of the Code of Criminal Procedure and Certain Laws (“Law Amendment”), which includes significant changes to the Personal Data Protection Law (“PDPL and the Law”), was published in the Official Gazette on March 12, 2024. With Law Amendment, Article 6 titled Processing of Special Categories of Personal Data, Article...
The long-awaited and important amendments to the Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (“PDPL and/or Law“), Bill No. 659 on the Amendment of the Criminal Procedure Code and Certain Laws and Decree Law No. 659, known as the “8th Judicial Package” which was submitted to Turkish Grand National Assembly (“TBMM”) on February...
With the Communiqué (Communiqué No: 2024-32/69) (“Amendment Communiqué“) published by the Ministry of Treasury and Finance on the Amendment to the Communiqué on Decree No: 32 on the Protection of the Value of Turkish Currency Numbered 2008-32/34, (“Communiqué”), amendments have been made to the implementation principles regarding the prohibition of payments in foreign currency...
Att. Dr. Çiğdem Ayözger Öngün is named as a Thomson Reuters “Stand-out Lawyer” 2024. SRP-Legal is proud to announce that Att. Dr. Çiğdem Ayözger Öngün, Founder and Managing Partner of SRP-Legal, is recognized for the outstanding quality of her practice, client satisfaction and advocacy, as well as her business and commercial acumen by clients and...
The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (“CBRT”) issued the Communiqué on the Redetermination of the Minimum Equity Amount of Payment and Electronic Money Institutions (“Communiqué”) and amended the minimum equity requirement set out in the Regulation on Payment Services and Electronic Money Issuance and Payment Service Providers (“Regulation”). Following the amendment, the minimum...
The Personal Data Protection Authority (“Authority”) published Guidelines on the Processing of Turkish Republic Identity Numbers (“Guidelines”) on January 16, 2024. The Guideline emphasizes that the Authority has received many complaints that the direct processing of Turkish Republic ID numbers is being preferred by data controllers/processors while other methods are possible. In this context, since...
With the decision dated October 11, 2023, and numbered E: 2020/76, K: 2023/172 (“Decision”), published in the Official Gazette dated 10 January 2024 and numbered 32425, the Constitutional Court (“Constitutional Court”) annulled certain provisions of the Law No. 5651 on the Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Combating Crimes Committed through These Publications (“Internet...
