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Law 7582 gives new Turkish tax residents 20 years of zero tax on foreign-source income and capital gains, plus a flat 1% inheritance rate. Who qualifies, what's covered, and how the investment routes fit.
On 4 June 2026 Turkey published Law No. 7582 in the Official Gazette, after the Grand National Assembly passed it on 21 May. Tucked inside the package is one of the most generous relocation incentives any country has put on the table: a new article of the Income Tax Law (repeated article 20/D) that gives qualifying new tax residents a 20-year exemption on foreign-source income and capital gains. No fixed annual fee, no lump-sum charge written into the law. Twenty years of zero Turkish tax on income earned outside Turkey.
This is the kind of change that moves where wealthy families decide to live. Below is what the law actually says, who it's built for, and how it connects to the residency and citizenship routes we handle.
The headline is simple. If you become a Turkish tax resident and you weren't one for the three calendar years before that, your foreign-source income and capital gains sit outside the Turkish tax net for 20 years. Only income with a Turkish source stays taxable.
The mechanics that matter:
The three-year clean-slate rule is the gate. It's there to attract genuine new arrivals and returning nationals rather than letting existing residents reclassify themselves.
The trigger is tax residency, not citizenship. You do not have to be a Turkish citizen to use this. You have to become a Turkish tax resident while meeting the three-year prior-non-residence condition.
That opens it to three groups the government clearly had in mind:
One open question, worth being honest about: the law is published, but the implementing communiqués that spell out the fine print are still expected. Whether someone who obtains Turkish citizenship by investment but has never been a Turkish tax resident slots straight into the regime is the kind of detail the secondary legislation will confirm. Read the headline as settled and the edge cases as pending.
The exemption is keyed to tax residency, so the practical question is how you get there. Three common paths:
This is the combination that makes Turkey hard to ignore right now. The investment route gets you in the door quickly; the tax regime is what you find on the other side of it.
Alongside the income exemption, the same law sets inheritance and gift tax at a flat 1% for people inside this regime. Turkey's standard inheritance and gift tax runs on a sliding scale up to 30% depending on the relationship and the amount. A flat 1% for transferring substantial wealth between generations is, for many families, as significant as the income exemption itself.
If your planning horizon includes passing assets to children, this line of the law deserves as much attention as the headline.
Law 7582 also reopened Turkey's asset-peace mechanism, the Varlık Barışı. Until 31 July 2027, individuals and companies can declare assets held abroad, including cash, gold, foreign currency, securities, and other capital-market instruments, through Turkish banks or brokerages, with no tax inspection or assessment on what's declared. Declared assets generally have to be moved into a Turkish bank or brokerage account within two months of the declaration.
For someone relocating and consolidating their affairs in Turkey, the amnesty and the 20-year exemption are designed to be used together: bring the capital in clean under the amnesty window, then hold and grow it under the exemption.
Turkey hasn't invented the idea of a special tax deal for incoming wealth. It has, on paper, made the most aggressive version of it:
Turkey's pitch is a longer window (20 years), no annual fee, a 1% inheritance rate, a large domestic economy, a wide treaty network, and a location that bridges Europe, the Gulf, and Central Asia. We break the numbers down side by side in Turkey versus Italy, Greece, and the UAE on tax.
This is new law, and good advice means saying what isn't settled yet:
Do I need Turkish citizenship to get the 20-year exemption? No. The exemption is tied to becoming a Turkish tax resident while not having been one in the prior three calendar years. Citizenship is one fast route to a legal footing in Turkey, but the tax benefit keys off residency.
What income is actually exempt? Foreign-source income and capital gains: things like dividends, interest, foreign rental income, and gains on assets held abroad. Turkish-source income remains taxable in Turkey.
How long does the exemption last? Twenty years from when you qualify, provided you keep meeting the conditions. That's five years longer than Italy or Greece.
What's the catch with the three-year rule? You can't have been a Turkish tax resident, with a domicile or tax liability in Turkey, during the three calendar years before you qualify. It's built for genuine new arrivals and returning nationals.
Is the wealth amnesty separate? Yes, but complementary. The Varlık Barışı window runs to 31 July 2027 and lets you declare and repatriate foreign assets without inspection. Many people relocating will use both.
If Turkey is on your shortlist, the move is to get the residency or citizenship footing in place and let your tax adviser confirm how the exemption maps to your income. The investment routes are the fastest way in, and the tax regime is the reason a lot of families are now looking at them seriously.
Run the numbers first with our Turkey tax savings calculator, then read our Turkey citizenship by investment breakdown, or talk to an advisor about the residency-plus-tax path for your situation.