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The 0% IT tax regime

Corporate tax on exported software and services, VAT, and how the tax side stacks with reimbursements.

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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.

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Every tax a foreign-owned Turkish software company actually pays

Corporate tax, VAT, dividend withholding, payroll and the export exemption, in one place, with what each one actually costs a software company.

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Getting your export income into Türkiye 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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Will my home country tax me anyway?

The question every founder asks before setting up in Türkiye. What controlled foreign company rules actually target, why a real operating business is treated differently from a shell, and the three questions to put to your adviser at home.

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The 0% corporate tax on IT exports, explained plainly

Presidential Decision 11257 raised the deduction on qualifying service export income to 100% from 1 January 2026. What qualifies, the four conditions, and how it combines with reimbursements.

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