Holiday Let New Controls

[Inspector]

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR PROPERTY OWNERS
Summary of New Regulations for Daily rental houses villas and aparts.
As you remember after the terrorist attacks in istanbul Ministery of Internal Affairs changed the regulations.
Summary of changes for daily weekly rental properties.
1- Owner of the property have to apply to Police or Jandarma and register it as a rental property.
2- After the registration they will give you a password.
3- You need to buy a program and install it in your computer. Cost of program is starting from 300 lira for one villa
4- When you finish instalation you have to send list of people in the property every thay between 24.00/02.00
5- You have to send a empty list even if there is nobody in the property every day
6- At the end of the season you can apply to Police /Jandarma and suspend your account till the next season.
Attention
If you start renting your villa daily and weekly before doing those written above. Fined is starting from 10000 Lira (2200£)
If you dont send your guest list for one day (even when there is nobody) fine is 5000 Lira (1100£)
You need to inform the guests. if somebody comes as their guest and stays at the property and you are not informed and dont send on daily list, you will be fined again.
Police will send the accomidation lists to tax office and you have to be carefull, keep documents receipts for each entry and pay the tax.
Its not clear yet that if they will get tax with simple declaration or will ask an accountant to register you as a busines.
No need these process for long term rentals with contract.

Hello Article 5 is changed you dont need to send empty list if there is nobody at house. You will just send the list if there is people in the house.

[Karennina]

Thank you for posting Inspector...that is a little bit better that you dont have to do the list if the property is empty. So when you purchase the software this is going to have to be installed in either a stand alone computer or possibly a laptop? So many folk I know only have tablets and phones...will there be an English version of the software available, whilst I realise this will be done in Turkey the majority of folk who rent out their prooerties are foreigners...   

[scorcher]

According to the recent article in the Fethiye Times there is no charge for the software.

[stoop]

According to the recent article in the Fethiye Times there is no charge for the software.

Yes but nobody seems to know who will be allowed to use it and if it will be in any language other than Turkish.

After all they have no requirement to make it easy for foreign owners  

[stoop]

Just found this. Interesting that apartments on Sitesis cannot be rented out short term / holiday lets.

https://docmartinssurgeryforexpatsinturkeyblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/15/renting-your-turkish-property-out-taxation-info-also-tenants-rights/

[sadler]

That's interesting Stoop. Do we know what constitutes a sitese? If, as I am thinking, it is any complex with, say, 12 aparts on, there will be an awful lot of property owners who bought with the hope that they could rent to cushion the running costs and may now find themselves without any income and stuck with a property they can ill afford to keep!

I used the example above only because it was the setup we owned on and I know that several of the owners bought Expecting, and relying in some cases, on holiday rental income.

[JohnF]

As far as I'm aware, a sitesi is simply a term for a group of buildings.  It doesn't have any legal standing as a term, so no minimum or maximum numbers associated with it.

JF

[sadler]

So is this article implying that it will be illegal to short term rent from any (or most) residential properties?

[sadler]

Meant to add "unless it is registered as a business".

[JohnF]

Its not very clear. 

Until folks actually start to use the new system(s), and more accurate information becomes available about how local authorities are interpreting the legislation, I don't think anyone is really going to know where they stand.

This is Turkey and different provinces and local areas tend to interpret new legislation differently.

JF