With the Official Gazette of July 7, 2023, new VAT rates and IMEI registration increases were announced that will go down in Turkey’s history. While the VAT increase will take effect on July 15, 2023 new IMEI registration feeIt is valid from tomorrow.

In addition to the utopian IMEI fee of 20 thousand TL, the issue of buying phones from abroad was also on the agenda. We have calculated these separately for you in this content. Well, the “logical” level of buying a phone from abroad, How much has it changed over the years?

Before moving on to our content, let’s explain how we did our calculations:

• Dollar course, from the closing price on July 7 of each year (If July 7 falls on a weekend, the last day of the week closes).
• iPhone prices are the same as the dollar exchange rate prices on July 7 of each year taken as.
• iPhone prices in dollars, from launch prices reception.
• IMEI charges, Rates are effective July 7 each year covers. For example, in 2019, the IMEI fee was increased to 1,500 TL on July 19. However, on July 7, it was 618 TL.
• Each year is based on the most current iPhone base model for that year.

With this data, the table is composed as follows:

2018 – iPhone X

2019 – iPhone XS

2020 – iPhone 11

2021 – iPhone 12

2022 – iPhone 13

2023 – iPhone 14

Leaving aside the iPhone Xs and iPhone 13, there is a difference between buying other iPhone models from abroad or from Turkey. In percentage terms, there is no significant difference. we can see. Of course, if you consider the difference as a unit, you will see that the numbers increase, but we must not forget that the TL decreases as the numbers grow.

What happened on July 7, 2023: