Independent Accountant and Financial Advisors announced their demands with a press release

Members of the Union of Chambers of Independent Accountants and Certified Public Accountants of Turkey (TÜRMOB) held a simultaneous press release in 81 provinces of Turkey, demanding to reduce the increasing workload.

Gümüşhane – Bayburt SMMMO Vice President Mehmet Demir said, “Our justified and humane demands should be implemented urgently so that 130 thousand Financial Advisors can do their jobs in a healthier way.” said.

Gümüşhane – Bayburt SMMMO Vice President Mehmet Demir explained his colleagues’ demands as follows:

“The number of statements and notifications received through members of the profession is increasing day by day, and the content of these statements and notifications is becoming more difficult rather than easier.

While it is being discussed in developed countries to reduce weekly working days to four days in order to increase work efficiency, we, as Financial Advisors, are confined to our offices almost 24/7.

Although apparently requested from taxpayers or employers, almost all data needed regarding economic and social life has become collected through Financial Advisors.

While this situation causes professionals to be crushed under a very heavy workload, the systems used to receive declarations and notifications do not work and are blocked during busy periods, which increases the stress of our colleagues who are racing against time.

“Our colleagues have become unable to prepare statements and notifications in a healthy way, even in routine periods.” he said.

Stating that the necessary applications were made to the Ministry of Treasury and Finance but no response was received, Demir said:

“It is clearly seen that a total of fifty-six declarations and notifications will be made in the tax calendar announced by the Revenue Administration in April alone. In addition to these declarations and declarations, we do not find it fair and practicable to force the work to be done on inflation correction procedures, which were last implemented 20 years ago and whose general notification and circular were published only two or three months ago, and which still contain many hesitations in practice, to be completed in the same calendar.

When official, administrative and weekend holidays are combined with Ramadan Feast, there are only eighteen working days left in April due to a total of twelve days of holiday. It is not possible to give so many statements and notifications in such a short time.

Do our colleagues have to die at their desks in order for our colleagues to take into consideration both our written and verbal applications to the officials of the Ministry of Treasury and Finance?

We have conveyed the solution suggestions that will ease the workload of Financial Advisors to the officials of the Ministry of Treasury and Finance, both in writing and verbally, many times.

In every interview we had, it was frequently stated that Financial Advisors were crushed under the heavy workload, that the burden on their shoulders had reached an unbearable level, and that the physical and mental health of our colleagues could not bear this burden.

In order to eliminate these problems, which have grown as a result of our suggestions being kept silent for years, it is necessary to simplify declarations and notifications and modernize information systems infrastructures. “said.

Demir listed the demands of Financial Advisors as follows:

“We should not remain insensitive to the cries of 130 thousand professionals who are crying out for immediate solutions to our problems. We are no longer able to do our current work, it is at a standstill!

It is also our constitutional right as financial advisors to live in humane conditions. The Ministry of Treasury and Finance asked not to extend the declaration periods every month, but to effectively classify the data collected through electronic applications and share it with all public institutions such as TUIK, Central Bank and Public Procurement Agency, which legally request data, in an age where artificial intelligence technology is used today. we demand.

We want the burden of repetitive declarations and notifications based on the same data to be alleviated. Additionally, we request that tax declaration periods and deadlines be regulated taking into account public holidays.

There is currently a state of outrage in the professional community. Our colleagues are working day and night, in addition to their routine work, to complete their corporate tax returns by the end of the month.

It is not possible to prepare corporate tax returns in a timely manner due to the interruption of work due to the holiday and the inability to collect information and documents from taxpayers.

While even corporate tax returns cannot be prepared and declared on time, the request for inflation adjustments to be made in the provisional tax period 17 days later and the balance sheet to be attached to the declaration causes us financial advisors to go crazy.

We request that our application to the Ministry of Treasury and Finance and the Revenue Administration be implemented, along with its grounds, so that inflation correction procedures will not be carried out in the provisional tax periods in 2024 due to the transition period in 2024 and the publication of the secondary legislation quite late and excessive density.

It is not possible to upload Corporate Tax Declarations and electronic ledger certificates for 2023 on time due to the long public holiday periods in April.

For this reason, our request to extend the loading times of corporate tax returns and e-book certificates and the provisional tax declaration period must be fulfilled.

“In addition, our request that the ongoing force majeure situation in the earthquake zone should be extended until the end of the year, taking into account the extraordinary conditions experienced in the region, and that inflation adjustment should be implemented without tax effects for taxpayers in the region, should be fulfilled.”