According to data released by the Finance Ministry’s Revenues Administration (GİB) the highest discrepancy between declared income and actual income was TL 172.4 million in the alcoholic beverage industry, where the ministry levied a total of TL 36.9 million in fines following investigations during 2009. This was a serious blow to the state’s tax income last year. Tax inspectors from the GİB audited 1,382 individuals and corporations in 2009 based on risk analysis results. The report draws a discouraging picture as regards the sector’s tax performance even though almost every sector evades taxes in Turkey. The auditors detected a TL 74.69 billion difference between taxes declared and tax that should have been collected in 2009. The figures show that taxpayers only declared TL 11.7 of every TL 100 in income to the state last year.
Based on evidence of tax evasion, the Finance Ministry has levied TL 4.58 billion in fines on companies from the alcoholic beverage, construction, real estate, insurance, mining, mobile phone, electronics, home appliance, food and communication sectors.
