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Backwards in blacklisting: Enabling corruption in procurement
Subhashini Abeysinghe is a Research Director at Verité Research and an economist specializing in international trade. Subhashini has worked for the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) for nearly 10 years as a senior economist. She has also worked as a visiting lecturer at Faculty of Graduate Studies of the University of Colombo and Sir John Kotalawela Defence University in Sri Lanka.
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Backwards in blacklisting: Enabling corruption in procurement
Subhashini Abeysinghe is a Research Director at Verité Research and an economist specializing in international trade. Subhashini has worked for the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) for nearly 10 years as a senior economist. She has also worked as a visiting lecturer at Faculty of Graduate Studies of the University of Colombo and Sir John Kotalawela Defence University in Sri Lanka.
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Backwards in blacklisting: Enabling corruption in procurement
Subhashini Abeysinghe is a Research Director at Verité Research and an economist specializing in international trade. Subhashini has worked for the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) for nearly 10 years as a senior economist. She has also worked as a visiting lecturer at Faculty of Graduate Studies of the University of Colombo and Sir John Kotalawela Defence University in Sri Lanka.
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Backwards in blacklisting: Enabling corruption in procurement
Subhashini Abeysinghe is a Research Director at Verité Research and an economist specializing in international trade. Subhashini has worked for the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) for nearly 10 years as a senior economist. She has also worked as a visiting lecturer at Faculty of Graduate Studies of the University of Colombo and Sir John Kotalawela Defence University in Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka's Unique Revenue Problem
Tax to GDP and GDP per capita for most South Asian countries shows a positive relationship as can be show by the infographic below. For example Bhutan had a tax to GDP of 10% in and GDP per capita of 4% in the year 2000....
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SL to implement imputed rental income tax in 2025
Sri Lanka will implement an Imputed Rental Income Tax in Q2 2025, targeting owners of multiple unoccupied homes to increase state revenue by 0.2% of GDP in 2025 and 0.4% in 2026.
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Daily News
Record Export Revenue of US$ 15 Bn in 2021 - Merch...
Sri Lanka has recorded an export revenue of US$ 15.12 billion for 2021, according to Trade Minister Dr. Bandula Gunawardena. This is an increase of 23 per cent compared to the previous year (2020), when the export revenue was reported to be...
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Sri Lanka President knew revenues will be lost, VA...
Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa knew revenue will be lost by tax cuts but he considered it an investment, and an 8 percent tax rate slashed from 15 percent, will remain unchanged for 5 -years, a top official said.
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Government Revenue Loss due to the Sugar...
The Special Commodity Levy (SCL) on impor...
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Will the Increase in Cigarette Taxes Mee...
On the 1st of Jan 2023, the government increased excises taxes on cigarettes by 20% as follows:
Gazetted Taxes are 4.3ppt to 15.4ppt of...
The infographics provide details on how the recent personal income t...
Cigarette Taxation Formula – The Cost of...
In 2019 the government introduced a policy where taxes and prices on...
Sri Lanka's Government Revenue in 2021 C...
Government revenue in 2021 was only 41% of its expenditure, which wa...
Changes in Tax Structure Leads to Shrink...
Sri Lanka experienced a significant change in its tax system for the...
Tax on Sanitary Napkins
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Government Revenue and Grants Over The P...
Revenue and Grants declined by LKR 91 BN from 2020 to 2021.
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The Cost of Inflation: Sustaining 2015 Consumption...
Sri Lanka's is set to experience a 160% increase in nominal GDP from the 2015 levels of LKR 11.6 trillion as projected nominal GDP for 2023 estimated at LKR 30.3 trillion. However, while the real GDP in 2023 remains relatively unchanged from the 2015 levels, the doubling of nominal GDP h...
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Only 11 out of 52 SOEs have Published Financial Da...
Out of the 52 Key State-Owned Enterprises identified by the Ministry of Finance, only 11 have released their financial reports until the year 2022 as of June 30th, 2023. This progress does not align with Sri Lanka’s commitment to the I...
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Tax revenue misses IMF target in 1st quarter!
According to the 2022 Annual Report from the Ministry of Finance, tax revenue for the first quarter of 2023 experienced a surge of 56%, amounting to LKR 578 billion. This was a increase from the LKR 370 billion collected during the same peri...
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