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TRNC's incentive regime: eight categories, open to foreign investors, with a clawback

Rule record · last verified 22 September 2026

In force. Start date not confirmed in this record.

Rule

TRNC's incentive regime under the Incentive Law 47/2000 is administered by the State Planning Organization, offers eight defined incentive categories to domestic and foreign investors alike, and can be clawed back, with financial and criminal consequences, for breach of its conditions.[1]

Exceptions

  • This rule covers the regime's existence, administering body, eight-category framework and clawback mechanism only. It excludes the specific rates for two of the eight categories (stamp-tax reduction on capital increases; mortgage-transaction fee reduction), delegated to an implementing Tüzük not located; and the minimum-investment 'own equity' ratio by region/sector, described in YAGA's own FAQ as set by a 2017 Council of Ministers decision not independently located or confirmed as still current.

Applies to

Who:
Investors · Company shareholders

Where this rule comes from

Authority
Assembly of the Republic (Cumhuriyet Meclisi), TRNC
Jurisdiction
Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC)
Basis
Legislation · asserted by us within this jurisdiction
Verification
Primary source verified. We read the primary text ourselves on 22 September 2026.
Legal review
Not yet reviewed by a named legal reviewer.

History of this rule

  • — Narrowed to exclude two categories' unlocated specific rates and the unconfirmed minimum-equity ratio. (version 1, First published)

Sources for this rule

Numbered in order of first use. Each entry names the kind of source it is and the day we read it.

  1. [1]
    Incentive Law, No. 47/2000 (consolidated with amendment laws 46/2002, 44/2003, 3/2004, 13/2014, 26/2014)

    State Planning Organization, TRNC · Legislation and gazettes · original in Turkish · accessed 20 September 2026 · source record

Cite this record

https://northcyprusreference.com/en/rules/incentive-law-regime-framework-and-clawback

Identifier incentive-law-regime-framework-and-clawback · Open data · challenge this rule