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HOW MUCH IS DOCTOR SALARY IN TURKEY WITH TAX AND INFLATION?
A specialist doctor salary in Turkey of 5,448 Turkish Lira in January 2021 due to the 2021 government tax tranche. Because of taxes, his salary, which melted Turkish Lira 441, was also hit by inflation.
The General Health-Labor Union in Ankara, Turkey has produced a stunning report exposing the pay losses of health workers, which the government says “we can’t pay for their rights” at every turn. The report found that Turkish medical staff working in Turkey on pandemic conditions have suffered a huge salary loss of pay since the beginning of the year due to inflation, on the one hand, and on the other hand, a tranche of taxes.
In January, 5 thousand 448 TL net doctor salary for specialist physician in Turkey received only 5 thousand 7 Turkish Lira, according to the study conducted directly over the payrolls of the medical staff in Turkey recent. The specialist physician found Turkish Lira 441 in his net salary was gone down as he was caught in the 20 percent tax bracket instead of 15 percent. In the same way the doctor’s salary, which was 4 thousand 488 Turkish Lira in January, melted 239 Turkish Lira to 4 thousand 249 Turkish Lira, and the nurse’s salary, which was 4 thousand 11 Turkish Lira, fell 240 TL to 3 thousand 771 TL.
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IS INFLATION IN TURKEY IS ALSO EFFECTIVE?
According to the study, the increase in the 2021 Turkey tax bracket reduced the dentist’s salary from 4 thousand 684 Turkish Liras to 4 thousand 427 Turkish Lira, the salary of a foreigner and Turkish specialist midwife from 4 thousand 438 TL to 3 thousand 905 TL, and the salary of a health technician from 4 thousand 140 TL to 3 thousand 889 TL. In addition, like all civil servants and civil servant retirees, medical personnel for the first 6 months of this year 3 percent increase reached 6.39 percent 5 months of inflation remained below the rate of 3.39 percent in real terms also melted.
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THE HIKE WAS STEAM
Turkey Medicals, to AA correspondents in statement said, “health workers entered a top tax tranche earlier because their additional payments, such as revolving funds, were also included in the income tax base. “Health workers who are struggling with the pandemic are experiencing economically difficult days,” was said, noting that doctors in Turkey face a remuneration system in which tax rates are raised instead of salaries. The 3 percent increase that public employees will receive in July has evaporated with the tax tranche in June before they pocketed it,” was said.
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SOME BRANCHES OF DOCTORS ALSO FELL INTO A SHORTAGE
General Health-Business Head, said that they calculated the meltdown in salaries over Real payrolls and that health workers in Istanbul, Antalya also who were declared heroes in the fight against the covid-19 pandemic did not receive high wages as thought. “Turkish Health workers who are condemned to low salary wages by the revolving capital performance scam cannot even meet the basic needs of their family in Turkey in a lack of livelihood. Salaries in Turkey for Doctors should be increased to levels worthy of human dignity, and the tax rate should be abandoned,” he said.
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TURKISH PARLIAMENT AND MINISTER CABINET TO MEET
The Turkish government plans to pass a bill of law amendment, scheduled on September 2021, that will balance the cause for economical inefficiency on the salary loss for Doctors and professional Health staff in our country, during the unforeseen world Pandemic conditions.
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