MILLIRE_2019_Annual Report

202 Milli Re Annual Report 2019 Millî Reasürans Türk Anonim Şirketi NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2019 (Currency: Turkish Lira (TL)) (Convenience Translation of Financial Statements and Related Disclosures and Footnotes Originally Issued in Turkish, See Note 2.1.1) Investment contracts are those contracts which transfer financial risk with no significant insurance risk. Financial risk is the risk of a possible future change in a specified interest rate, financial instrument price, commodity price, foreign exchange rate, index of prices or rates, credit rating or credit index or other variable, provided, that it is not specific to a party to the contract, in the case of a non-financial variable. The Group acts as a reinsurer when writing insurance from an insurance company (cedent) on the basis of reinsurance contracts and cedes insurance business to another retrocessionaire (the retrocedant) on the basis of retrocession contracts. As at the reporting date, the Group does not have a contract which is classified as an investment contract. 2.15 Insurance contracts and investment contracts with discretionary participation feature Discretionary participation feature (“DPF”) within insurance contracts and investment contracts is the right to have following benefits in addition to the guaranteed benefits. (i) that are likely to comprise a significant portion of the total contractual benefits, (ii) whose amount or timing is contractually at the discretion of the Issuer; and (iii) that are contractually based on: (1) the performance of a specified pool of contracts or a specified type of contract; (2) realized and/or unrealized investments returns on a specified pool of assets held by the Issuer; or (3) the profit or loss of company, fund or other entity that issues the contract. As of balance sheet date, the Group does not have any insurance or investment contracts that contain a DPF. 2.16 Investment contracts with discretionary participation feature As of the reporting date, the Group does not have any insurance contracts and investment contracts without discretionary participation feature. 2.17 Liabilities Financial liability is any liability that is a contractual obligation to deliver cash or another financial asset to another entity. Financial liabilities of the Group are measured at their discounted values. A financial liability is derecognized when it is extinguished. 2.18 Income taxes Corporate tax Statutory income is subject to corporate tax at 22%.(However, according to the Provisional Article 10 added to the Corporate Tax Law, the corporate tax rate of 20% is calculated as 22% for the corporate earnings for the fiscal periods starting in the related year for the institutions whose special accounting periods are assigned to the taxation periods of 2018, 2019 and 2020 will be implemented. This rate is applied to accounting income modified for certain exemptions (like dividend income) and deductions (like investment incentives), and additions for certain non-tax deductible expenses and allowances for tax purposes. If there is no dividend distribution planned, no further tax charges are made. Dividends paid to the resident institutions and the institutions working through local offices or representatives are not subject to withholding tax. The withholding tax rate on the dividend payments other than the ones paid to the non- resident institutions generating income in Turkey through their operations or permanent representatives and the resident institutions is 15%. In applying the withholding tax rates on dividend payments to the non-resident institutions and the individuals, the withholding tax rates covered in the related Double Tax Treaty Agreements are taken into account. Appropriation of retained earnings to capital is not considered as profit distribution and therefore is not subject to withholding tax.