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Banks Urge Treasury to Include Financial Institutions in Inflation-Adjusted Accounting

TURKEY
  • Turkish banks plan to urge Treasury authorities to allow them to use inflation-adjusted accounting, rather than exempting them and ramping up taxes for the sector as the government currently plans, three senior bankers told Reuters.
  • At the beginning of the month, Simsek told Bloomberg that Turkey may exclude financial institutions from its planned switch to hyperinflation accounting in a move to shore up the state's tax income.
  • A banker told Reuters that banks did not want high inflation to give the appearance of outsized profits at a time when the country remains gripped by a cost-of-living crisis.

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