Country’s revenues up 30.8%, while expenditures rose 57% year-on-year in Q1
Turkiye’s budget deficit in the first quarter of this year was 257.83 billion Turkish liras ($13.65 billion), official figures showed on Friday.
The Turkish Treasury and Finance Ministry said its revenues totaled 801.15 billion liras ($42.4 billion) in the first three months of this year, up 30.8% on a yearly basis.
Budget expenditures amounted to 1.06 trillion liras ($55.7 billion) during the same period, up 57% from January-March 2022.
During the first quarter, the budget also earned 3.2 billion liras ($169 million) from privatization moves.
The primary balance – excluding interest payments was at minus 172.68 billion liras ($9.1 billion) in the three-month period.
In March alone, the country’s budget deficit was 32 billion liras ($1.68 billion).
The average USD/TRY exchange rate was 18.9 in the first quarter and 19 in March, according to Central Bank data.