Data from the Revenue Administration shows that doctors are reluctant to pay taxes despite their high incomes. A female obstetrician earned an annual income of 53 million lira but only declared 6.5 million lira, while a hair transplant specialist generated 69 million lira in revenue but reported only 3 million lira.

In studies conducted by the Revenue Administration, tax returns and financial compliance levels of taxpayers working in private clinics as doctors were examined using artificial intelligence-supported analysis programs. Some doctor-owners of private clinics were found not to fully reflect their earnings from patient examination fees and procedures such as cosmetic and surgical operations and dental treatments in their declarations, with discrepancies of up to 400% between their reported and actual earnings. Through AI-supported analyses, the first 3,663 most risky taxpayers were identified among doctors with inconsistencies between their tax declarations and incomes. It was revealed that these taxpayers had concealed approximately 13 billion lira in revenue. Earned income 53 million lira, no tax paid

It was also determined that some doctors operating in fields like general surgery, orthopedics, and neurosurgery underreported the fees received from patients for surgeries and examinations. Surgeons who worked in agreement with private hospitals or accepted patients at their own clinics were discovered to hide income that should be taxed by reporting lower surgery fees. In this study, it was observed that a female obstetrician omitted a yearly income of 53 million lira and reported only 6.5 million lira.

Dentist’s revenue 67 million lira In examinations conducted on dentists, it was found that income from procedures like implants, prosthetics, orthodontics, and aesthetic dental treatments were underreported. A dentist was identified to have earned an annual revenue of 67 million lira but reported only 3 million lira.

Underreported aesthetic operations

The rapidly growing aesthetic sector has also come under scrutiny in recent years. Investigations revealed that some doctors performing procedures like rhinoplasty, fillers, Botox, liposuction, underreported their earnings. Especially in aesthetic clinics that treat foreign patients and operate in foreign currency, a significant part of the income was found to be unreported. As part of the study, it was found that a doctor specializing in hair transplantation declared an annual income of 7 million lira but actually earned 69 million lira.

In the study, out of the doctors initially invited to voluntarily comply, 850 submitted tax returns and corrected their tax bases.