Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signed on 13 April 2020 the decision for the ratification of the pending protocol to the 1996 income and capital tax treaty with Ukraine. The protocol, signed 9 October 2017, is the first to amend the treaty and will enter into force on the last day of the month following the month the ratification instruments are exchanged and will apply from 1 January of the year following its entry into force.