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Turkey sees $450M budget surplus in January

by Anadolu Agency

ANKARA Feb 15, 2018 - 12:00 am GMT+3
by Anadolu Agency Feb 15, 2018 12:00 am

The Turkish government budget balance saw a surplus of 1.7 billion Turkish liras ($450 million) in January, the Ministry of Finance announced on Thursday.

According to an official statement, Turkey's budget revenues fell by 1 percent to 58.2 billion Turkish liras ($15.4 billion) last month, compared to the same month of last year.

The budget expenses stood at 56.5 billion Turkish liras ($14.9 billion), marking a 19.4 percent annual rise.

Excluding the interest payments, the budget recorded a surplus of 7.7 billion Turkish liras (around $2 billion) in January, while the interest expenditures were around six billion Turkish liras ($1.6 billion).

The government's tax revenues reached 52 billion liras ($13.7 billion) in the first month of this year, a 7.4 percent annual rise in tax collection.

Last year, Turkey's central government budget balance showed a deficit of 47.4 billion Turkish liras ($12.9 billion), which was below the expectations -- around 1.5 percent of the GDP.

Turkey's budget revenue hit 630.3 billion Turkish liras ($172.7 billion) last year, while expenditures were 677.7 billion liras ($185.6 billion) -- including the interest payments.

The government's annual budget balance saw a non-interest surplus of 9.3 billion Turkish liras ($2.6 billion) in 2017, considering the interest expenditures of 56.7 billion liras ($15.5 billion).

As noted in the country's medium term program, the budget deficit/GDP ratio is targeted as 1.9 percent in 2018, 1.8 percent in 2019, and 1.6 percent in 2020.

According to Turkey's Central Bank, the average USD/TRY exchange was 3.78 in January, while it was 3.65 last year.

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