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Sri Lanka Customs (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා රේගුව, romanized: Shri Lanka Reguwa, Tamil: இலங்கை சுங்கச் சாவடி) is a ministerial government department in Sri Lanka. The main functions of the department are, Collection of revenue; Prevention of revenue leakages and other frauds
Ceylon Grain Elevators agreed to pay the Government of Sri Lanka LKR115 million as part of the out-of-court settlement agreement in 2012. Sri Lanka Customs fined the company for LKR1.17 billion alleging the company violated the customs law. The two parties agreed to a settlement after negotiations, without the company conceding any legal liability.
The current chairman of Aitken Spence is Harry Jayawardena.He is the founder director and current chairman/managing director of the Stassen Group of Companies – a diversified group in exports and import trade, the chairman of Lanka Milk Foods (CWE) PLC, Browns Beach Hotels PLC, Balangoda Plantations PLC, Madulsima Plantations PLC, Melstacorp PLC, Ambewela Livestock Company Ltd, Lanka Bell ...
The first permanent post office in the country was established by the British in Colombo in 1882, when the country was a crown colony. [1] It was housed in several different locations until the construction of the General Post Office building at 17 Kings Street (now known as Janadhipathi Mawatha), Colombo Fort, opposite the-then Governor's residence at King's House (now the President's House ...
The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce was established on 25 March 1839, when Sri Lanka was known as Ceylon under British rule.. Rt. Hon. James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie, then Governor of Ceylon, was instrumental to found the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce as he was keenly interested in promoting agriculture and trade in Ceylon.
Duty-free permit (or Duty-free vehicle permit or Motor Vehicle Permit on Concessionary Terms) is a permit issued by the Treasury of the Government of Sri Lanka that allows its holder to import a vehicle into Sri Lanka on duties concessions or exempt from certain taxes.
Thesavalamai is the traditional law of the Sri Lankan Tamil inhabitants of the Jaffna peninsula, codified by the Dutch during their colonial rule in 1707. The Thesawalamai is a collection of the Customs of the Malabar Inhabitants of the Province of Jaffna (collected by Dissawe Isaak) and given full force by the Regulation of 1806.
Kodituwakku filed a petition in the Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka seeking an order to compel the Director General of Customs to conduct a formal inquiry into Prestige Automobiles for a Rs 16 billion government tax revenue fraud through the importation of 1,675 units of high-value BMW motor cars during the period between March 2011 to October 2014.