Company setup
6 articles
How claiming works
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.
Living and working here
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.
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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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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.
Living and working here
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.
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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.