On 21 April 2015, Turkey published General Communiqué No. 8 in the Official Gazette. The Communiqué amends General Communiqué No. 1 on Corporate Income Tax and provides instruction for the implementation of Article 5(b) of the Corporate Income Tax Law (CITL), which was introduced by Law 6518 enacted on 6 February 2014.
Article 5(b) provides for a 50% corporate income tax exemption for earnings derived from the use of inventions created through research, development and innovation activities …