Tax Persecution

News:

The Budget Law Proposal prepared for the year 2025 has been adopted in the Grand National Assembly of Turkiye.

Comment:

In the budget for 2025 adopted by the Turkish Grand National Assembly, budget expenditures were set at a total of 14 trillion 731 billion liras (420 billion dollars). On the other hand, budget revenues were estimated at 12 trillion 800 billion liras (365 billion dollars). Within the framework of these figures, the budget deficit for 2025 is expected to be 1 trillion 931 billion liras ($55 billion). The ratio of the budget deficit to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was projected as 3.1 percent.

Tax revenues ranked first among the main sources of budget revenues Dec. 2025. - Income Tax 2 trillion 130 billion liras (61 billion dollars) -Corporate Tax 1 trillion 637 billion liras (47 billion dollars) -Special Consumption Tax 2 trillion 121 billion liras (60 billion dollars) -Value Added Tax 3 trillion 599 billion liras (103 billion dollars) -Other Tax Revenues 1 trillion 652 billion liras (47 billion dollars) -Non-tax Revenues are 1 trillion 662 billion liras (47.5 billion dollars).

The budget expenditures for the year 2025 are projected as follows. * 3 Trillion 911 billion liras (112 billion dollars) for personnel expenses * Purchase expenses of goods and services 1 trillion 24 billion liras (29 billion dollars) * Current transfers 5 trillion 813 billion liras (166 billion dollars) * Capital expenditures of 1 trillion 102 billion liras (31 billion dollars) * Capital transfers 338 billion liras (9.6 billion dollars) * Lending expenses 306 billion liras (8.7 billion dollars) * Reserve allowances 287 billion liras (8.2 billion dollars) * Interest expenses 1 trillion 950 billion liras (55.7 billion dollars) Value added tax (VAT), which is the 2 highest tax types among budget revenues, accounts for 3 trillion 599 billion liras (103 billion dollars) and special consumption taxes account for about 45% of budget revenues of 2 trillion 121 billion liras (60 billion dollars).

Value added tax and special consumption taxes are taxes taken out on the entire population, spreading to the base.

These taxes are taxes that a newborn baby, the elderly, men, women, children, disabled, students, pensioners, civil servants, workers, artisans, farmers, widows, orphans, orphans, even people who have no income, that is, 85 million people living in Turkey, all of them have to pay without distinction. This is a clear injustice! The taxes that all such people have to pay are one of the most obvious proofs that the political and economic order based on capitalism is a cruel exploitation order that does not take people as its basis.

Allah (swt), on the other hand, has forbidden such taxes to be extended to all people. When necessary, the tax can be levied only on the surplus income of the rich.

The only option that will save humanity from this brutal wheel of capitalist exploitation that condemns the vast masses of people, except for a small minority that controls wealth, resources and incomes, to live in hunger, poverty and misery, is the Islamic life order.

[فَذَلِكُمُ اللّهُ رَبُّكُمُ الْحَقُّ فَمَاذَا بَعْدَ الْحَقِّ إِلاَّ الضَّلاَلُ فَأَنَّى تُصْرَفُونَ]

“This is Allah, your true Lord. What then remains after the truth but error? Then how are you being turned away?” [Surat Yunus: 32]

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Remzi Özer – Wilayah Türkiye