Taxpayers to be offered digital convenience

The government will soon introduce practices to streamline bureaucratic processes for taxpayers, Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek has announced.

Şimşek said the Revenue Administration is working on a series of draft communiqués that will provide convenience to taxpayers, and the drafts will soon be made public for input and opinions.

"We are implementing a series of practices to reduce reporting obligations, increase voluntary tax compliance, fight the informal economy and reduce bureaucratic procedures," Şimşek said, adding that the state is always on the side of compliant taxpayers and will take all possible steps to reduce their obligations and costs.

"In this context, we are moving the expense voucher to the electronic environment, expanding the e-Ledger application and expanding the scope of electronic reporting," the minister said.

Explaining the details of the new procedures, Şimşek said they will abolish the Ba-Bs notifications, which have been required monthly since 2008 to report the purchases and sales of taxpayers who keep books on balance sheets. He noted that the need for these forms, affecting approximately 1.6 million taxpayers, has decreased due to the rise in electronic document applications and the implementation of data sharing between institutions.

Emphasizing that they will expand the scope of the e-Ledger application, which is currently used by approximately 720,000 taxpayers who maintain balance sheet-based records, Şimşek said that with the draft they have prepared, it is envisaged that all taxpayers who keep books on a balance sheet basis will be included in the e-Ledger application with an addition of approximately 1 million taxpayers in the system.

He stated that nine documents such...