Smartphones brought from abroad For use in Turkey It must be registered within a certain period. Although this registration process is popularly called IMEI registration, this process also requires payment of a fee.

This registration fee On July 7, 2023 With the decision taken suddenly of 6 thousand 91 TL for 20 thousand TL was raised. Regarding this regulation, CHP Bolu deputy Türker Ateş asked a parliamentary question to the Presidency of Parliament, asking Minister Şimşek to answer it. Minister Şimşek responded to the proposal.

A total of 6.2 billion TL revenues were generated

In his parliamentary question, Ateş said:Your decision on July 8 It is said that it will come into effect. This fee was applied to 2,000,732 TL until the end of 2022. For example, the IMEI fee has increased 7.3 times in seven months. Citizens who heard about the decision and made a phone call from abroad, but had not yet gone abroad, deposited 6,000 TL 91 at the tax and excise offices on the same day. The system did not accept payments previously deposited at tax and customs offices. What victims of telephone costs paid afterwards 6 thousand 91 TL To get it back, he submitted a request for reimbursement to the tax authorities.

How many telephone costs of citizens have been reimbursed for this reason? How long was the return period? How many people paid telephone registration fees in 2023? “How much revenue is generated from these fees?” asked.

IMEI registration of 815 thousand phones was registered

Lightningin his response to Ateş’s proposal “It has been determined that 815,289 telephone registration fee payments were made between January 1, 2023 and November 21, 2023 and that the total collection amount It is 6 billion 237 million 244 thousand 307.50 TL. On the other hand, the managements of the tax authorities have initiated the correction process for 39,000 payments made on July 7, 2023.” he said.