What is the base for income tax withholding?

What is the base for income tax withholding? Is it calculated as (gross salary - social contributions - unemployment insurance) * tax rate?

In Turkey, the taxable base for income tax (the amount on which the withholding tax rate is applied) is generally calculated by subtracting the employee’s statutory social security contributions and unemployment insurance contributions from the gross salary. In a simplified form:

Tax Base = Gross Salary – (Employee’s Social Security Contributions) – (Employee’s Unemployment Insurance Contributions)

Once you have determined this tax base, you apply the progressive income tax rates (not a single rate) to calculate the actual tax withholding. The portion of income up to the annual minimum wage limit is exempt from both income tax and stamp tax, and any amount above that threshold will be taxed according to the progressive brackets in effect.

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