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A man carrying a cardboard box across a nearly empty bright office toward an open door, chairs stacked and a bare table behind him How claiming works
· 5 min read

What happens to your incentives if the business fails

Closing a Turkish company does not oblige you to repay support. A defective claim does, and that debt can be collected from the people who ran the company.

How claiming works
A woman and a man with wheeled cabin cases standing in a bright office reception, one holding a folder, rooftops through tall windows Living and working here
· 4 min read

Work permits for the team you bring with you

The founder's residence permit is the easy part. Employing foreign staff runs into a five to one local hiring ratio, a capital test and salary floors set as multiples of the minimum wage.

Living and working here
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· 6 min read

Limited or joint stock: which Turkish company to set up

Both qualify for the incentives identically, so the choice turns on three things: who can be chased for unpaid tax, what happens when you sell, and whether you plan to raise.

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A woman walking away down a long sunlit airport corridor pulling a suitcase Start here
· 6 min read

Do you have to live in Türkiye to own a company there?

Nothing in the incentive rules asks the owners to live here. What the company does need is someone who can act for it locally, and if that someone is you, a work permit.

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A row of grey waiting chairs against floor to ceiling windows, a folder and pen left on one seat Living and working here
· 5 min read

Tax number, bank account, residence permit: the order to do them in

The admin that stands between deciding to set up in Türkiye and actually operating. What each step needs, which ones block the others, and where the delays really come from.

Living and working here
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Moving an existing studio to Türkiye: what has to move with it

You cannot pick a company up and put it in another country. What you can do is decide which parts move, and one of them decides whether store commissions are claimable at all.

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