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Sri Lanka sees new anti-government protest amid high cost of living, taxes
In 2023 the agency has been give a target to collect 217 billion rupees.
Overall deficit down to 5.5-pct of projected revenues from 8.6-pct last year
We discussed with China's EXIM Bank this week and by now we have commenced exchanging views on it
2024 by all estimates will be an election year, which is not good for reforms
Also talking with other creditors
Sri Lanka is removing taxes on imported masks and disinfectants to as demand increases due amid a Coronavirus epidemic, ...
Sri Lanka' credit to government from commercial banks had surged to 147.8 billion rupees in January 2020, up from 34.4 b...
Sri Lanka has announced that 45,585 graduate mainly from state universities who failed to get a job in productive secto...
Sri Lanka's cabinet has given the nod to negotiate 10-year US dollar and Renminbi denominated loans from China Developme...
Sri Lanka plans to connect 150,000 new houses to pipe borne water in the first two quarters of 2020 by lowering initial ...
Sri Lanka will set up a holding company owned by the Treasury, Bank of Ceylon and Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation to con...
Sri Lanka is making good progress with a loans of more than a billion US dollars loan from China Development Bank, which...
Sri Lanka has hiked a tax on imported fish to 150 rupees a kilogram from 100 rupees or 10 percent of the value, the fin...
Sri Lanka's hotels, which were given till January 2020, to pay a tourism tax for 2019, after the industry was hit by sui...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is calling on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament to grade all government ins...
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Sri Lanka's cabinet of ministers had decided not to sign an agreement with the America's Millennium Challenge Corporatio...
Sri Lanka's national carrier Sri Lankan Airlines is expected to lose 130 million US dollars (about 26 billion rupees) in...
Sri Lanka's parliament to should be recalled by the Speaker to pass a supplement to a four month mini-budget, Informatio...
Sri Lanka's Ministry of Highways had been given the nod by the cabinet of ministers to seek a proposal from China Nation...
There is no financial crisis in the government due to the withdrawal of a supplementary estimated to the interim budget...
Sri Lanka's government had withdrawn a motion to increase spending and the borrowing limit under by an amendment to a fo...
Sri Lanka could have achieved a revival in consumer demand with a smaller stimulus, as the country tends to go through a...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has directed Provincial Councils and Local Authorities not to charge any new taxes or fees ...
The public finance committee of Sri Lanka's parliament has given the nod to change to a laws relating to Nation Building...
Sri Lanka's taxpayer support may be extended to supplement a state mandated wage hike to workers of plantations plantati...
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