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Cigarette Taxes: The cost of failure

The Government proposed a policy to systematically index increases in cigarette taxes. However, tax hikes in December 2019 were to balance the effects of the reduction in VAT and withdrawal from NBT, and not to implement this policy. The resulting loss to the Government: LKR 20 billion.

2020-06-12
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