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Public limited company

Anonim şirket A.Ş.Türkiye

What it takes to form, own and run a public limited company in Türkiye, and how its profit is taxed. Each figure links to the page it was read from.

This company type

At a glance

Owners' liability
Limited to what the owners put in
Officialmevzuat.gov.trRead 10 Oct 2026
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Anonim şirket, sermayesi belirli ve paylara bölünmüş olan, borçlarından dolayı yalnız malvarlığıyla sorumlu bulunan şirkettir.
Owners
At least 1 · a company may be one
Officialmevzuat.gov.trRead 10 Oct 2026
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Anonim şirketin kurulabilmesi için pay sahibi olan bir veya daha fazla kurucunun varlığı şarttır.
Directors
At least 1 · none need live there · a company may be one
Officialmevzuat.gov.trRead 10 Oct 2026
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Anonim şirketin, esas sözleşmeyle atanmış veya genel kurul tarafından seçilmiş, bir veya daha fazla kişiden oluşan bir yönetim kurulu bulunur.
Minimum capital
TRY 250,000 (about €4,486)
Officialicticaret.ticaret.gov.trRead 10 Oct 2026
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Anonim şirketlerde 50.000 Türk Lirasından 250.000 Türk Lirasına,
Formation fee
Free
Officialticaret.gov.trRead 10 Oct 2026
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Türkiye’de şirket kuruluşu harçtan muaftır.
Tax on profit
Officialmevzuat.gov.trRead 10 Oct 2026
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Kurumlar vergisi, kurum kazancı üzerinden %25 oranında alınır.
Notary needed: NoResident director needed: NoFormed without visiting: YesFormed online: Yes

Form it

Who registers it

Registry
Formed without visiting
Yes
Formed online
Yes

What it takes to form

A notary
Not required
A resident director
Not required
Paying up the capital
At least one quarter of the nominal value of shares committed in cash must be paid before registration; the remainder within 24 months after registration (Ministry of Trade guide).
Official ticaret.gov.tr read 10 Oct 2026
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tescilden önce ödenmesi zorunludur.

Own it

Who may own and run it

Directors
At least 1 · none need live there · a company may be one
Official mevzuat.gov.tr read 10 Oct 2026
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Anonim şirketin, esas sözleşmeyle atanmış veya genel kurul tarafından seçilmiş, bir veya daha fazla kişiden oluşan bir yönetim kurulu bulunur.
Shareholders
At least 1 · a company may be one
Official mevzuat.gov.tr read 10 Oct 2026
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Anonim şirketin kurulabilmesi için pay sahibi olan bir veya daha fazla kurucunun varlığı şarttır.
Members
At least 1 · one person may form it alone
Official mevzuat.gov.tr read 10 Oct 2026
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tek pay sahibinin adı, yerleşim yeri ve vatandaşlığı da tescil ve ilan edilir
A local company secretary
Not stated

The registry’s and the law’s own pages do not mention it.

A local registered agent
Not stated

The registry’s and the law’s own pages do not mention it.

Each year, at the registry

Annual registry fee
Not stated

The registry’s and the law’s own pages do not mention it.

Accounts on the public record
Not stated

The registry’s and the law’s own pages do not mention it.

Audit for a small company
Not required
Official ticaret.gov.tr read 10 Oct 2026
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en az ikisinde eşik değerleri sağlayan sermaye şirketleri bağımsız denetime tabidir.
Audit
Independent audit applies only to capital companies in listed activities or meeting at least two of three thresholds (total assets, net sales, employees) in two consecutive periods (Presidential Decision 6434, as amended); a company below them is not audited.
Official ticaret.gov.tr read 10 Oct 2026
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en az ikisinde eşik değerleri sağlayan sermaye şirketleri bağımsız denetime tabidir.

Important dates

When each obligation falls due, as the authority states it.

Ordinary general meeting of shareholders
3 months after the end of the accounting period

Statute sets the window only; no shift rule or penalty read. Not checked against the registry's own pages.

What is public

Directors
Public
Official mevzuat.gov.tr read 10 Oct 2026
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Herkes ticaret sicilinin içeriğini ve müdürlükte saklanan tüm senet ve belgeleri inceleyebileceği gibi giderini ödeyerek bunların onaylı suretlerini de alabilir.
Shareholders
Not recorded
Official mevzuat.gov.tr read 10 Oct 2026
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Herkes ticaret sicilinin içeriğini ve müdürlükte saklanan tüm senet ve belgeleri inceleyebileceği gibi giderini ödeyerek bunların onaylı suretlerini de alabilir.

Tax

Tax on profit

How this company type is taxed, which can differ from its place’s headline rate.

Flat · 25%+5 regimes

Corporate tax at 25% of corporate earnings (KVK Art. 32).

Official mevzuat.gov.tr read 10 Oct 2026
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Kurumlar vergisi, kurum kazancı üzerinden %25 oranında alınır.

Work it out on a profit figure: the company’s tax, the owner’s, and what is left.

Special regimes that may apply

Whether a company qualifies depends on its activity and conditions set in each statute.

CFC rules in Türkiye
Not in our records

Close it

Closing it

The other end, which most guides leave out.

Not in our records Route, Statutory fee: none of these is in our records for the A.Ş..

Every business in Türkiye

VAT

Standard rate
20%

The general rate rose from 18% to 20% on 10 July 2023; the 8% rate on the Annex II list rose to 10% on the same date.

Official cdn.gib.gov.tr read 22 Oct 2026
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a) Ekli listelerde yer alanlar hariç olmak üzere, vergiye tabi işlemler için, (7346 sayılı Cumhurbaşkanı Kararı ile değişen ibare. Yürürlük: 10/07/2023) % 20
Other rates
  • 10% Goods and services in Annex II to the VAT rates decision
  • 1% Goods and services in Annex I to the VAT rates decision
Official cdn.gib.gov.tr read 22 Oct 2026
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b) Ekli (I) sayılı listede yer alan teslim ve hizmetler için, % 1
Registration threshold
Not in our records
A foreign company
See the note

The Revenue Administration's website is drawn by script and gave no readable text; the rates decision and general application communiqué read state no rule for a business established abroad, so the non-resident answers are left unrecorded.

Tax authority
Gelir İdaresi Başkanlığı (Revenue Administration)

Payment and banking services

1 service names Türkiye on its own list: Paysera. Each provider, and what a listing means.

Reference

Its name and code

Kind
Public limited company
Derived our grouping, the same words in every country
Name in law
Anonim şirket (A.Ş.)
ISO 20275 code
W2SQ