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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.

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Claiming when your team is spread across several countries

A distributed team does not disqualify you. The Decision supports staff in T眉rkiye and staff in overseas offices, but the 0% tax deduction asks where the service is provided from.

For your kind of company
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Nobody is scoring your application against anyone else's

Decision 10962 is a rule, not a grant competition. There is no panel, no ranking and no acceptance rate. What decides the outcome is whether your documents match the conditions.

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How to choose someone to run your incentive claims

You give an advisor authority inside a government system, and the liability for what they file stays with your company. Here is what to establish before you sign.

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The costs of claiming that nobody quotes you

The reimbursement is not the net figure. A claim carries certified accountant sign-off, notarisation and translation, and the support itself lands in the company's taxable income.

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Can you stack T眉rkiye's incentives, or do you have to choose?

Cash support and tax relief sit in different systems and can run together. Inside the tax system you pick one regime, and inside the cash system each expense counts once.

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T眉rkiye's IT and gaming export incentives: the complete guide

What T眉rkiye pays software and game companies for selling abroad, who qualifies, what the money covers, and what a claim takes. Written by the people who file them.

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Does Turkish inflation cancel out the incentives?

You earn dollars, you spend dollars on ads and cloud, and the reimbursement is fixed to the exchange rate on the day you paid. Where the lira actually touches your numbers, and where it does not.

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What happens when someone buys your studio

Turkish studios get acquired. Two rules decide whether the sale is clean: the incentives survive a share sale but not a sale of the game itself, and share certificates decide whether the gain is taxed.

The 0% IT tax regime
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Getting your export income into T眉rkiye before the deadline

The 0% deduction has four conditions. Three are settled when you incorporate. This one has to be handled every year, and it is a calendar job rather than a hard one.

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Does a Turkish company need real people in it?

Yes, and the requirement is lighter than founders expect. What the rules actually ask for, and why T眉rkiye pays half the salary of the people you put there.

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Pay from the company account: the payment trail rules

Support is paid to the company, so the money has to leave the company. What counts as proof of payment, why a founder's card breaks a claim, and how store payouts are evidenced.

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Moving an existing studio to T眉rkiye: 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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Why claims get rejected, and the three-month cure period

Four things account for almost every rejected or delayed claim under Decision 10962. Three of them are fixable after the fact, and only one of them is fatal.

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What claiming takes, month to month

Founders ask whether the paperwork will eat their week. It is a quarterly rhythm rather than a project, and the part that decides how much you collect is the calendar rather than the forms.

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The six-month filing window: the one deadline every studio must know

Most Decision 10962 claims need no pre-approval, but every payment has a six-month clock. How the window works, what starts it, and how to run a filing cadence that never misses it.

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