News Headline: "Additional Assessments and Penalties Totaling 5.7 Billion TL Issued in 10 Months Following Subsequent and Secondary Control Audits"
As a result of subsequent and secondary control audits, an additional tax assessment and penalty decision amounting to 5.7 billion TL was issued in the first 10 months of 2024.
According to a statement from the Ministry of Trade, international trade is becoming increasingly complex due to geopolitical tensions, rising supply-side shocks, and protectionist trends.
The statement provided the following information: "Turkey, which is integrated into global trade, processed approximately '500 billion dollars in foreign trade transactions with 6 million declarations' under the complex structure of global trade in the first 10 months of 2024 in its customs."
To carry out our foreign trade transactions as quickly and safely as possible, the Ministry of Trade ensures the completion of current customs procedures in the shortest time while continuously verifying the accuracy and validity of declarations made in previous periods through subsequent and secondary control audits.
Within the scope of Subsequent Control and Secondary Control activities, the compliance of firms' past foreign trade transactions with regulations is checked, and additionally, completed customs declarations are continuously scanned by the Ministry of Trade, with suspicious declarations being re-examined in detail.
Advanced analytical techniques developed by the Ministry of Trade are used in both the selection of firms to be subjected to Subsequent Control Audits and the identification of suspicious declarations subject to secondary control. This allows for the filtering of risky firms among hundreds of thousands and millions of declarations.
As a result of these efforts, in the first 10 months of 2024, 234 firms were subjected to subsequent control audits by Ministry of Trade inspectors, while an additional tax assessment and penalty decisions were issued for 7,692 customs declarations during secondary control inspections.
Within this framework, approximately 5.7 billion TL in additional tax assessments and penalty decisions were issued due to 'subsequent and secondary control audits' in the first 10 months of 2024, preventing revenue loss for the public. We will continue our efforts without slowing down."