Accountants and tax advisers

What crosses an accountant’s desk

Foreign income disclosures bring vergi levhası and beyanname, rental income from Turkish property, and bank statements. Employment cases bring payslips and an SGK hizmet dökümü. Clients with a company in Türkiye send the trade registry gazette, the certificate of activity and annual accounts. In the other direction we translate HMRC documents — an SA302, a tax year overview, a National Insurance record — into Turkish for SGK borçlanma or for a Turkish accountant.

Numbers behave differently

Turkish uses a comma for decimals and a full stop for thousands, so 1.234,56 TL is one thousand two hundred and thirty-four lira and fifty-six kuruş. Dates are written 31.12.2025. Both conventions cause real errors when a document is skimmed rather than translated. We reproduce figures with their original separators and add the English convention alongside where ambiguity is possible, we do not convert currencies — the exchange rate and the date it is taken on are your decision, not ours — and we keep Turkish tax terms such as KDV, stopaj and geçici vergi with an English explanation rather than mapping them onto UK equivalents that carry different rules.

Deadlines and how we schedule

January is the pressure point for self assessment and Türkiye’s corporate calendar adds its own dates. Firms that expect volume in a particular month tell us in advance and we hold capacity; otherwise standard turnaround is one to two working days for short documents, with longer sets quoted from the file. Page rates, monthly invoicing and a single point of contact are arranged terms we agree with you in writing before the first job, with invoices in the practice’s name and no UK VAT charged.

Typical figures

Turkish into English is from £10.00 per 1,000-character page, certification included; English into Turkish is from £6.50. A vergi levhası is a single page at £10.00; a year of payslips is priced from the scan and usually falls between £60 and £120; a full set of Turkish annual accounts is quoted from the file because the tables carry a great deal of text. Certification is included by default, since HMRC and lenders often ask for it after the event and re-issuing later wastes everyone’s time.