Turkey Publishes Technical Guide for Taxi Fiscal Devices

The Turkish Tax Authority's new guide outlines formats and content for taxi receipts, e-Documents, and reports via Taxi Financial Devices, specifying payment scenarios, required data, and various report types, ensuring standardized documentation and reporting for taxi transactions.

The Turkish Tax Authority has published a new technical guide regulating the documents and reports that must be issued through Taxi Financial Devices (TMCs).

The guide defines the required format, standards and minimum content for taxi receipts, e-Documents and reports generated by these devices. It is based on General Communiqué No. 591 of the Tax Procedure Law, which introduced rules for the use of fiscal devices in taxis.

The document explains how receipts must be issued for different payment scenarios, including cash payments, bank or credit card payments, partial payments and payments made through taxi-hailing applications. In cases where card or digital payments are used, the taxi receipt and payment transaction information must be combined into a single integrated document.

The guide also covers e-Document formats, including e-Invoices and e-Archive invoices issued by Taxi Financial Devices. These documents must include required information such as payment type, VAT amount, travel distance, travel time, taxi licence plate, QR code and electronic signature-related data.

In addition, the guide regulates several report formats that must be generated by the devices, including X, Y and Z reports, shift reports, daily sales reports, daily statistical reports and audit reports. Some reports must be transmitted electronically to the Turkish Tax Authority’s systems.

Overall, the technical guide standardizes how taxi transactions are documented, reported and controlled in Turkey. It is especially relevant for taxi operators, device manufacturers, payment service providers and software developers working with taxi fiscalization systems.