I.M.F. Delegation To Discuss Tax Reform With Economic Bureaucrats

ANKARA - International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation will take up tax reform and state economic enterprises in its meeting later in the day with economic bureaucrats.
Sources said on Friday that also IMF's Turkey Desk Chief Juha Kahkonen would attend the meeting that would take place at the Treasury.
General financing and personnel structure of state economic enterprises, tax reform, and impacts of this reform on public finance and public sector primary surplus would be discussed at the meeting, sources said.
Meanwhile, works on some details about implementation were under way although talks on the letter of intent had been almost completed, sources added.
Following completion of the fourth review and approval of the letter of intent by the IMF Executive Directors Board, IMF will approve nearly 1.6 billion U.S. dollars tranche of loan.
(MS-AÖ) 21.02.2003