Breaking News - Prices of alcohol, petrol and tapu's go up from today

[nichola]

It's on the Turkish news now. The prices of alcohol, petrol, cigarettes and tapu's go up from today...

[Crimsonpoppy]

Bad news Nicola.
Am due to sign for my house on 2nd October
Is it the TAPU registration fee or the purchase tax . Have already been quoted figures . Was this predicted or a sudden surprise?

[Rimms]

Don't really care about 3 of the price rises, but one of them is bad news for me !

[philrose]

Yes buyer/seller tax is now at 4%, with alcohol to go up by 25% and tobacco up by 15%!

[mercury]

Is that the tax rate or the actual price increase?

[philrose]

Is that the tax rate or the actual price increase?

Alcohol and tobacco it is the actual increase.
This is the blog that I saw it on, but I have yet to see anything in the turkish online newspapers about it......
http://turkeywithstuffin.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/take-a-hike/

[Scunner]

I think it's very serious stuff. Once Turkey's reputation for cheap booze disappears, tourism figures will be severely hit in all areas. A 25% increase in booze prices will also cause a large hike in All Inclusive prices and maybe hit areas like Belek hard. You can get all inclusive cheaper in Spain, Greece, Tunisia, Egypt and Portugal (and others, it's a competitive market) and the beer and spirits are often cheaper in those places ALREADY...

Coupled with some of the costliest flights in Europe from the UK, things really don't look good for Turkey. Expensive to get to, expensive when you get there. Not the Turkey I discovered...

[Sus]

Well at least it has not got into these price brackets yet.

Top 10 most expensive countries
Greenland £7.35
Norway £6.78
Qatar £6.00
Djibouti £5.47
Singapore £5.08
United Arab Emirates £5.02
Sweden £5.00
France £4.95
United_Arab_Emirates £4.86
Guadeloupe £4.80

But on the other hand you could always go and live in these countries beer is cheap there.

Top 10 most affordable countries
Tadjikistan £0.29
Panama £0.31
Bhutan £0.36
Burundi £0.37
Korea N £0.38
Madagascar £0.38
Myanmar £0.38
Rwanda £0.38
Congo DR £0.44
Philippines £0.45

Or you can just accept the fact that it is all due to inflation and prices could not stay as low as there were.

Now as for Egypt why would anyone go there for a holiday at the moment

[bewva]

What is that the price of Sus?

[busybee]

Thats gonna make an efes 6-7TL, this is going to have a vast effect on people going out for a drink and we will have a long running post regarding it lol.