Trabzon Chamber of Independent Accountants and Financial Advisors made a press statement to express its objections regarding working conditions and workload.
Mayor Cüneyt Hayal made a press statement in Meydan Park and called for the improvement of working conditions and for their objections to be heard.
The statements of Cüneyt Hayal, President of Trabzon Chamber of Independent Accountants and Financial Advisors, are as follows;
As financial advisors who play an important role in the rise of the country’s economy on a strong foundation, we have come together here today to defend our rights and express our demand for justice.
It is clear that states need some data to collect tax revenues and to make future plans in various areas.
However, while collecting this data, it is of great importance that the requested data be collected from a single source as much as possible, unnecessary information collection is prevented, and the methods used for data collection work properly.
Although apparently requested from taxpayers or employers, almost all data needed regarding economic and social life has become collected through Financial Advisors.
However, today the burden on Financial Advisors has reached unbearable levels. The number of statements and notifications received through professionals 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.
While this situation causes the members of the profession to be crushed under an already very heavy workload, the fact that the systems used to receive declarations and notifications do not work properly and become clogged during busy periods 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.
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 notifications, we do not find it fair and feasible to force the studies 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 make so many statements and notifications in such a short time.
Do our colleagues have to die at their desks for the officials of the Ministry of Treasury and Finance to consider the written and verbal applications made as of 08 APRIL 2024? Are you going to extend the declarations on the last day again?
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.
We are a professional group that makes all kinds of sacrifices for our state and fulfills our duties with a high sense of responsibility by risking our health to keep the wheels of the economy turning, just like during the pandemic period!
The state is our state. Of course, in times of crisis, everyone must take responsibility and work with all their might. However, no public power has the right to put so much pressure on a professional group or to harm people’s psychology.
Since our suggestions have been kept silent for years, it is important to eliminate these growing problems and to urgently implement the permanent regulations listed below, not with the “done and done” model, in order to make our profession feasible.
1- The Financial Administration’s dysfunctional notification and declaration system should be renewed urgently.
2- Legislation should be urgently amended so that the Declaration and Notification Periods are automatically extended as long as the Official and Administrative Holiday periods.
3-Where the judiciary is on holiday and the executive is on holiday, the Tax Tax must also be on holiday; Our Financial Holiday, which has a name but does not have its own, should be given to us.
4- Quota Application should be introduced urgently to ensure fairness in income distribution among professionals and to prevent unfair competition.
5- Inflation Adjustment Application and Balance Sheet must be annual.
6- The negative balance in the excessive workload and unfair wage tariff must be corrected urgently.
7- Simplified and compatible tax legislation should be prepared urgently.
8- Unnecessary statements and notifications should be removed, and the infrastructure of public institutions and organizations should be opened to each other.
We should not remain indifferent to the screams of 130 thousand members of the profession who are crying out for immediate solutions to our problems, and we demand that our justified and humane demands be implemented so that Financial Advisors can do our jobs more healthily.
We are no longer able to do our current work, we are at a standstill.
Living under humane conditions is also our constitutional right as financial advisors!
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