The Black Market Economy in Turkey: In Case of Elazig Province-TÜRKİYE’DE KAYITDIŞI EKONOMİ GERÇEĞİ (ELAZIĞ İL ÖRNEĞİ)

Economic activities are carried out within the control mechanism of goverment. This control functıon is provided by taxes collected from private or legal persons who perfom economic activities for usage of public expenditures. However most of the time the taxpayers are not willing to give part of their income to goverment because of financial, social and political reasons, and head towards the informal economy. The variety of economy activities also cause the diversity in informal economy. If control mechanisms are not systematic, then the informal economy rises and it affects the economy of country negatively. In this manner, informal economy creates a big trouble. In this study, informal economy is defined along with its causes, measuring methods, effects and its dimensıons ın Turkey examined and the actions that should be taken for recrement is discussed.