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Economic Policies in an Election Year: Suggested Priorities
Dr. Sharmini Coorey is a non-resident fellow at Verité Research. She was a former Department Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and currently a member of the Presidential Advisory Group on multilateral engagement and debt sustainability advising the Government of Sri Lanka.
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Economic Policies in an Election Year: Suggested Priorities
Dr. Sharmini Coorey is a non-resident fellow at Verité Research. She was a former Department Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and currently a member of the Presidential Advisory Group on multilateral engagement and debt sustainability advising the Government of Sri Lanka.
Featured Insight
Economic Policies in an Election Year: Suggested Priorities
Dr. Sharmini Coorey is a non-resident fellow at Verité Research. She was a former Department Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and currently a member of the Presidential Advisory Group on multilateral engagement and debt sustainability advising the Government of Sri Lanka.
Featured Insight
Economic Policies in an Election Year: Suggested Priorities
Dr. Sharmini Coorey is a non-resident fellow at Verité Research. She was a former Department Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and currently a member of the Presidential Advisory Group on multilateral engagement and debt sustainability advising the Government of Sri Lanka.
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Revenue Foregone by Government Due to Tax Concessions
For the fiscal year 2022/23 (April to March), tax concessions resulted in a total of LKR 978 billion in foregone revenue, the government reported on 31 March. The...
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Daily Mirror
Controversial Social Security Contribution levy c...
The controversial Social Security Contribution (SSC) levy came into effect this week with 2.5 percent slapped on turnover on a wider base of businesses with annual taxable turnover exceeding Rs.120 million as the bill was passed in Parliamen...
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economynext
Sri Lanka starts process to turn undisclosed asset...
The move is to encourage people with undisclosed income and assets to invest them after paying a 1 percent ‘tax on voluntary disclosure.’
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Ceylon Today
Casinos owe IRD Rs 2.67B
It was revealed at the Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) that cases have been filed by the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) in the Colombo Magistrate’s Court to recover Rs 2.67 billion in tax arrears from casinos.
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Insight on Revenue
The budget deficit has increased in 2019...
The recently released figures for 2019 show that government revenue ha...
Consistent revenue shortfalls lead to mo...
The deviation in government revenue from...
Changes in Special Commodity Levy (SCL)...
On 22 May 2020, Sri Lanka made changes to...
Cigarette Taxes: The cost of failure
The Government proposed a policy to syste...
Cigarette Taxation: 20 Billion Extra Rev...
The Government could raise an extra Rs. 2...
Sri Lanka’s Fiscal Outlook 2020
The International Monterey Fund estimates...
Tax Revenue Categories
How could COVID-19 affect government reve...
Overestimations in Revenue Expectations
Governments have consistently overestimated revenue and thes...
Cigarette Tax Indexation: Getting it Rig...
The indexation method introduced in 2019...
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Sri Lanka Has The Highest Inflation Amongst South...
Sri Lanka, amidst facing one of its worst economic crisis, is currently experiencing rapidly rising inflation. The inflation increased to 15.1% year-on-year in February 2022, a 13-year high. When compared against other...
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Expected GDP Outcomes: Budget 2024
The 2024 budget forecasts a greater contraction in 2023 and higher growth in 2024 compared to IMF projections.
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Why Tracking the IMF Programme Implementation is o...
This article was compiled by Dr. Nishan de Mel and Raj Prabu Rajakulendran. Dr. Nishan de Mel is the Executive Director of Verité Research and an ec...
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