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Government Deficit Has Decreased By Rs. 32 Billion from the Years 2020 to 2021

The recently released figures for 2021 show that government revenue has fallen from 9.2% of GDP in 2020 to 8.7% of GDP in 2021. Meanwhile, government expenditure has decreased from 23.0% of GDP in 2020 to 21.0% of GDP in 2021. This has caused...

Public Report on the 2021 Budget: Assessment on whether the expenditure allocations and taxation policies are in line with the government’s policy

This is the second report in a series of two reports on Sri Lanka’s central government budget for the year 2021. The report assesses whether the expenditure allocations and taxation policies are in line with the government’s policy.

Budget 2021 Round-up Part 2- Who Knows the Numbers?

Executive Director Nishan de Mel and Research Director Deshal de Mel discuss the numbers behind Sri Lanka’s 2021 Budget.

Over Optimistic Estimates in the 2021 Budget

Sri Lanka’s budget for 2021 featured large overestimations in Government revenue. See below for a breakdown of this overestimation by the d...

Missing Estimates in Budget Speeches

The budget for the year 2021 featured a number of missing estimates for some of its proposals. In fact, 36 revenue proposals and 32 expenditure proposals had no estimated figures in the 2021 Budget in comparison to 11 revenue proposa...

Breakdown of Government Revenue, 2000 to 2021

Here is a summary of government revenue over the years 2000 to 2021 with a breakdown by source of revenue for each year. Hover over the bar for each year to view the revenue contributions from different sources....

Budget 2021 Round-up With Expert Commentary

The Public Finance Platform presents an expert commentary on the 2021 budget speech, featuring panelists from various fields. Hosted by Deshal de Mel (Verité Research) and Dhananath Fernando (Advocata Institute), this discussion&...

Total Government Revenue 2021

The chart below shows the breakdown of the budgeted government revenue for 2021. Click on the respective categories/subcategories for more details.

Summary of 2021 Budget

Here’s a summary of government expenditure, revenue and financing allocated in the 2021 Budget. Government expenditure for 2021 amounts to LKR. 3,594 Bn and government revenue and grants for 2021 amounts to LKR. 2,029. Note: Figures in the Budget Speech may not always be similar t...