By Justin Mays:
Getting a tax number
in Turkey whether you are a resident or not is one of the easiest things to do.
A tax number is important because it is required for a number of things such as
buying a car, opening utility accounts paying tax, opening a bank account, payment
of residence fees just to mention a few.
The Vergi Numarasi (Tax
Number) will be required for many of your transactions in the process of
setting up your new life in Turkey and is easily obtained online with no fees. Before
you can buy a property and get settled in Turkey you will need to acquire this
ten-digit tax number as well.
There are two ways to
get your tax number. One is to visit your local tax office with color hard
copies of your passport’s photo page and the last incoming stamp page (stamped
at the time of immigration checkout).
Luckily the process has moved online now just taking ten minutes to get.
We recommend using Google Chrome if you need to translate the page from
Turkish.
For getting the Tax
Number Online, have your passport ready and visit the virtual tax office
website “ivd.gib.gov.tr” and click on “Yabancılar
İçin Potansiyel Vergi Kimlik Numarasi” (Application for non-citizens
potential tax number) located on the lower center of the page, fill out the
required information and upload a photo of your passport’s page with the photo.
The final step is to
fill in the security code box and click “Tamam”
(okay). Upon successful completion, you will get a pdf file from the
webpage and can immediately start using it to set up your life in Turkey and
buy that dream property.
If you lose your tax number, you can easily retrieve it by visiting the same page to recover it, the system simply could not be any simpler!
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