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Subsequently, the import levy imposed on the imports also reduced from 19% to 16%. Tariffs are highly imposed on imported motor vehicles at present. However Duty-free permit, a tax concession is also granted specially for the government officials to import vehicles into Sri Lanka.
2022 Sri Lankan protests: Rajapaksa loyalists stage a violent assault against anti-government protesters at the GotaGoGama protest site. A total of six people are rushed to the Wathupitiwala Base Hospital following a shooting incident in the area of Nittambuwa and a 27-year-old from Hapitigama in Kal-Eliya later died from gunshot wounds. [87]
The Gazette is published in Sinhalese, Tamil, and English which are the three official languages of Sri Lanka. It publishes promulgated bills, presidential decrees, governmental ordinances, major legal acts as well as vacancies, government exams, requests for tender, changes of names, company registrations and deregistrations, land restitution notices, liquor licence applications, transport ...
GST may refer to: Taxes. General sales tax; Goods and Services Tax, the name for the value-added tax in several jurisdictions: Goods and services tax (Australia)
The List of newspapers in Sri Lanka lists every daily and non-daily news publication currently operating in Sri Lanka. The list includes information on whether it is distributed daily or non-daily, and who publishes it.
10 April – The 2022 G.C.E Ordinary Level examinations which were scheduled to commence on 15 May are postponed by two weeks. [34] 22 April – "Wasath Siriya – 2023", a Sinhala and Tamil New Year Festival is held at the Shangri-La Green premises in Colombo with the participation of President Ranil Wickremesinghe. [35]
In early March 2022, the Sri Lankan Rupee began losing value quickly. As of the early 2020s, the debt-laden country is undergoing an economic crisis where locals are experiencing months of shortages of food, fuel and electricity. Inflation has peaked at 57% according to official data. [68] In April 2022, Sri Lanka declared a sovereign default. [95]
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (abbr. CBSL; Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව, romanized: Sri Lanka Maha Bankuwa) is the monetary authority of Sri Lanka. It was established in 1950 under the Monetary Law Act No.58 of 1949 (MLA) and in terms of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka Act No. 16 of 2023, the CBSL is a body ...