MILLI RE 2023 ANNUAL REPORT
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements As of December 31, 2023 Millî Reasürans Türk Anonim Şirketi (Currency: Turkish Lira (TL)) (Convenience Translation of Financial Statements and Related Disclosures and Footnotes Originally Issued in Turkish) 2.15 Insurance contracts and investment contracts with discretionary participation feature Discretionary participation feature (“DPF”) within insurance contracts and investment contracts is the right to have following benefits in addition to the guaranteed benefits. (i) that are likely to comprise a significant portion of the total contractual benefits, (ii) whose amount or timing is contractually at the discretion of the Issuer; and (iii) that are contractually based on: (1) the performance of a specified pool of contracts or a specified type of contract; (2) realized and/or unrealized investments returns on a specified pool of assets held by the Issuer; or (3) the profit or loss of Company, fund or other entity that issues the contract. As of balance sheet date, the Group does not have any insurance or investment contracts that contain a DPF. 2.16 Investment contracts with discretionary participation feature As of the reporting date, the Group does not have any insurance contracts and investment contracts without discretionary participation feature. 2.17 Liabilities Financial liability is any liability that is a contractual obligation to deliver cash or another financial asset to another entity. Financial liabilities of the Group are measured at their discounted values. A financial liability is derecognized when it is extinguished. 2.18 Income taxes Corporate tax Amendments were made to the Corporate Tax Law No. 5520 with a Law submitted to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey on 5 July 2023 and published in the Official Gazette dated 15 July 2023. According to this; the corporate tax rate has been increased from 25% to 30% for banks, Companies within the scope of Law No. 6361, electronic payment and money institutions, authorized foreign exchange institutions, asset management companies, capital market institutions, insurance and reinsurance companies and pension companies, starting from the declarations that will be submitted as of 1 October 2023. The corporate tax rate is applied to the net corporate income to be found as a result of adding the expenses that are not accepted as deductible in accordance with the tax laws to the commercial income of the corporations and deducting the exceptions and deductions in the tax laws. No further tax is paid if the profit is not distributed. There is no withholding tax on profit shares (dividends) paid to institutions that generate income through a workplace or permanent representative in Turkey and to institutions residing in Turkey. 10% withholding tax is applied on dividend payments made to institutions other than these. In the application of withholding tax rates for profit distributions to non-resident companies and real persons, the practices included in the relevant Double Taxation Agreements are also taken into consideration. Addition of profit to capital is not considered as profit distribution and withholding tax is not applied. Provisional taxes are paid by calculating at the corporate tax rate to which the earnings of that year are subject. Provisional taxes paid during the year can be deducted from the corporate tax calculated on the annual corporate tax return of that year. There is no practice in Turkey to reach an agreement with the tax authority regarding the taxes to be paid. Corporate tax returns are submitted to the relevant tax office until the evening of the last day of the fourth month following the month in which the accounting period is closed. However, the tax inspection authorities can examine the accounting records within five years, and if an incorrect transaction is detected, the tax amounts to be paid may change. In the Turkish tax system, financial losses can be deducted from the financial profits in the following five years, and it is not possible to deduct (retrospectively) from previous years’ earnings. As per the Article 17 of the Omnibus Law published in the Official Gazette dated December 28, 2023, Banks, companies within the scope of the Law on Financial Leasing, Factoring, Financing and Savings Finance Companies, payment and electronic money institutions, authorized foreign exchange institutions, asset management companies, capital market institutions, insurance and reinsurance companies and pension companies will apply inflation accounting in accordance with the Tax Procedure Law as of December 31, 2023, and the profit/loss difference arising from the inflation adjustment made in the 2024 and 2025 accounting periods, including the temporary tax periods, will not be taken into account in the determination of the tax base. 195 2023 Annual Report GENERAL INFORMATION FINANCIAL RIGHTS PROVIDEDTOTHE MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNING BODY AND SENIOR EXECUTIVES RISKS AND ASSESSMENT OF THE GOVERNING BODY ACTIVITIES AND MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS RELATED TO ACTIVITIES RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES FINANCIAL STATUS FINANCIAL INFORMATION
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