Turkey raised tax on petrol on Sunday to help to fund a 1.12 trillion lira (USD42.2 billion) increase to its 2023 budget after February's earthquakes and the May presidential election sent spending soaring, said Hydrocarbonprocessing.
The additional fuel tax will help with a budget deficit that jumped to 263.6 billion lira in the first five months of the year, up from 124.6 billion lira a year earlier, but it could also stoke inflation that had declined to 38.21% in June from a 24-year high of 85.51% last October.
The wider deficit was largely because of increased spending ahead of May elections, when President Tayyip Erdogan was elected for a third term, as well as on rebuilding work after the earthquakes in southern Turkey.
The earthquakes, which killed more than 50,000 people, are expected to cost Turkey more than USD100 billion in total.
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