Sat, 24 Nov 2001

Turkey aims to increase its tax revenue by 1,750 trillion lira (US$1.16 billion) in 2002 as part of revenue-raising and cost- saving steps needed to earn fresh IMF lending, economy officials told Reuters on Friday. Turkey expects to raise 5,525 trillion lira from the fuel tax in 2001 and had targeted 10,509 trillion for 2002 after increases to the charges on various fuels already enacted this year.--Reuters