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Budget 2023
Detailed analysis of the 2023 Budget
Summary of the Budget 2023
Sri Lanka Budget 2023 anticipates higher revenue, expenditure and a 6.6% reduction in the budget deficit.
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Daily FT
Verité Research says progress unknown of 2023 Budg...
Verité Research on Wednesday revealed that Budget 2023 proposals to the value of Rs. 43.8 billion or 89% of the funds allocated, the Government was not able to provide information on progress.
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Daily News
Economy witnessed gradual revival in 2023 – CBSL
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka reported a gradual economic revival in 2023, following the country's most severe post-Independence downturn.   Th...
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Sunday Times
New tax hike hurts high income earners
The Government’s desperate move of increasing income tax to a very high level under the new tax reforms fulfilling one of the commitments for the US$2.9 billion IMF extended fund facility has hit hard the high income earners and professionals below the belt.
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Insight on Budget 2023
Inadequacy of Sri Lanka's budget process
As taxpayers, you fund the national budge...
Parliamentary Budget Office and Public F...
The recently enacted Public Financial Man...
Budget Transparency - Sri Lanka is ranke...
The 2023 edition of the Open Budget Surve...
2023 End Year Budget Promises Study: Tra...
The 2023 End Year Budget Promises Assessm...
Progress unknown of budget proposals whi...
The 25 highest-value expenditure proposal...
Sri Lanka's fiscal performance in 2023 s...
Sri Lanka's fiscal performance in 2023 shows a mixed landscape o...
National Budget Process in 60 Seconds!
The video below describes the National Bu...
Will the budget's veil of secrecy be lif...
The lack of transparency on the implement...
Sri Lanka's best kept secret
The lack of fiscal transparency is a key...
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Sri Lanka verifiably met 38 of the 57 trackable commitments that were due for completion by end-August in its 17th programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), according to the latest progress up...
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IMF programme’s transparency falls to lowest point...
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