Gov’t cuts tax on whisky

Bloomberg

The changes, published in Ankara yesterday in the government’s Official Gazette, will cut the price of whisky and bring an increase of less than 1 Turkish Lira ($0.60) to bottles of rakı, the national alcoholic drink. The new rates will reduce the tax on a liter of whisky by about 10 liras, Dünya newspaper said, without saying how it made the calculation.