Legislation
Communiqué 595: digital-market reporting under the Tax Procedure Law
Communiqué 595 amends Communiqué 538. This page is the English working memo — who reports, how scope is cut, and what the desk asks at close.
5 September 2026·CPA Mert Akalın
What the communiqué changes
Tax Procedure Law Communiqué 595, dated 5 September 2026, updates Communiqué 538 on electronic-commerce notifications. The net is no longer only a company that runs a classic webshop: digital environments and intermediary platforms that enable others to trade are in scope.
Who is looked at
- Persons who sell goods or services in their own name in a digital environment
- Intermediary service providers and platform operators who enable others to sell
- Foreign-owned companies that invoice in Turkey, even if the customer is abroad, when a Turkish platform is used
A marketplace seller and a platform operator do not file the same pack. Volume tests are in the communiqué; turnover is read from the file’s e-document flow.
What the desk asks
Whether the company is a service provider, an intermediary, or both; whether the data already sits in e-invoice / e-archive queues; and which format and deadline the volume test produces.
Dubai-desk companies that invoice through a Turkish platform should expect this line at close. Figures come from the file, not from this memo.
Citation: Cited: Tax Procedure Law Communiqué 595, 5 September 2026.
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