Tax Consulting and Planning

Forward-looking tax planning coordination, not compliance filing

Tax consulting and planning looks ahead of your next filing deadline: how a business is structured, when income or expenses fall, and which legal incentives might apply, rather than the mechanics of preparing this quarter's return. FTurkey is a consulting and coordination company, not a licensed mali müşavir, tax attorney or the Revenue Administration (Gelir İdaresi Başkanlığı), and does not itself calculate tax liabilities, file returns or issue binding tax opinions. Within an agreed written scope, FTurkey helps foreign individuals and businesses map out the planning questions worth raising with a licensed mali müşavir or tax attorney, and coordinates that professional relationship — this service is planning-facing coordination, distinct from FTurkey's separate ongoing tax advisory and return-preparation coordination service for individuals and companies with existing compliance obligations.

Entity structure and timing questions worth raising early

Choices made when setting up or restructuring a Turkish business — sole proprietorship versus limited company (limited şirket) versus joint-stock company (anonim şirket), free zone location, holding structures, and the timing of dividend distributions or asset transfers — can carry materially different tax consequences that are far easier to address before a structure is in place than afterward. FTurkey can help you organise these questions and the facts relevant to them (planned activity, shareholders, cross-border flows) so a licensed mali müşavir or tax attorney can advise on the options and their trade-offs; FTurkey does not recommend a specific structure or estimate the tax saving it would produce.

Understanding available incentives without assuming eligibility

Turkey offers a range of legal tax incentives depending on sector, location and investment size — including free zone advantages, R&D and technology development zone incentives, and investment incentive certificates issued by the Ministry of Industry and Technology. Eligibility criteria are specific and change over time, and a mali müşavir or the issuing authority makes the actual determination. FTurkey can help you understand, at a general level, which incentive categories might be worth investigating for your business profile and gather the documentation an adviser would need to assess eligibility, but does not confirm that any specific incentive applies to you.

Cross-border considerations and double taxation treaties

If you have income, assets or business activity in more than one country, Turkey's double taxation treaty network may affect where and how income is taxed, and may require coordination between your Turkish mali müşavir and an adviser in your other country of tax residence. FTurkey can help identify that this cross-border dimension exists in your situation and coordinate communication between advisers in different jurisdictions, but the treaty interpretation and any position taken on a return is the responsibility of the licensed professionals involved.

Coordinating the planning engagement

FTurkey can help brief a licensed mali müşavir or tax attorney on your objectives, assemble the background documents they request, and follow up on action items agreed during planning discussions. Any tax position, structure recommendation or optimisation strategy is proposed and implemented by the licensed professional, on the basis of current law and your complete facts; FTurkey does not guarantee any specific tax saving, outcome or that a chosen structure will withstand a future audit.

What this service does not include

This service does not include preparing or filing tax returns, ongoing bookkeeping, representation before the tax administration, or tax litigation. Individuals and businesses who primarily need recurring compliance support — annual returns, VAT and withholding filings — are better served by FTurkey's separate tax advisory and compliance coordination service.

Request a proposal

Request a quote describing your business or personal situation, the planning question you want to explore, and any relevant cross-border ties. FTurkey can then propose a written scope for the orientation and coordination support available for your case.