Sri Lanka’s new administration headed by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is gearing up to present a new, relief-based budget, around next month, replacing budget 2022 – for the first time in history since independence

Sri Lanka yesterday succumbed to an embarrassing “hard default” as the grace period for the International Sovereign Bonds (ISB) Coupon payment lapsed.

The Inland Revenue Department (IRD) has called on large banks, finance companies and private sector companies to pay their first quarter taxes upfront, ahead of the due date, as the Government is facing a cash-flow problem in paying public s...

After two years of massive budget deficits, Sri Lanka is on its way to record another blowout budget deficit in the current year, with the deficit estimated for 2022 at 10.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), the estimates by the Centr...