Kemal Kilicdaroglu, a 61-year old former accountant, was unanimously elected on May 22, 2010, as leader of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), the main opposition party in Turkey’s parliament.
The CHP was launched by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, modern Turkey’s revered founder. In recent years, the party has fallen out of favor. Kilicdaroglu is trying to revive the party’s fortunes. Central to his vision is the flat tax, to simplify the tax system and lower the top tax rate to curtail the underground economy and tax evasion. It is estimated that half of Turkey’s work force is not registered in the tax net.
Current personal income tax rates range between 15% to 38%. Kilicdaroglu has not yet announced the choice of rate, but it is likely to be low, reflecting rates throughout Central and Eastern Europe’s flat-tax countries.
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