Turkey's Social Security Institution has issued a release announcing that six-month extensions are being provided for social security contribution payments due to COVID-19. The extensions are provided based on the deadline extensions for force majeure announced by the tax administration in March ({News-2020-03-26/A/17-previous coverage}). As such, the extensions apply for taxpayers covered by the force majeure extensions and certain others as follows:

• the deadline for contributions due by the end of April 2020 is extended to 2 November 2020;
• the deadline for contributions due by the end of May 2020 is extended to 30 November 2020; and
• the deadline for contributions due by the end of June 2020 is extended to 31 December 2020.

The extensions are provided without interest or penalties.