Topics
Explore
Featured Insight
The Government Has to Repay Yearly an Average of USD 4.4 BN Foreign Debt from 2021 Onwards
The infographic shows the actual annual foreign debt service payments of GOSL (Government of Sri Lanka) from 2010 to 2020 and the projected foreign debt service payments from 2021 to 2025. The breakdown of foreign debt service between principal payments and interest payments is provided. During the period from 2010 to 2018, the annual foreign debt service payments averaged USD 2,267 million. However, GOSL witnessed a steep rise in foreign debt service payments to over USD 4,600 million in 2019, a 42% increase compared to USD 3,243 million in 2018. The Ministry of Finance projections show that GOSL on average has an annual foreign debt service payments of USD 4,432 million between 2021 and 2025. In this period, interest payment component on average will account for 25.3% of the annual foreign debt service and principal payments account for the balance 74.7%. In 2025, the foreign debt service payment is forecast to reach a peak of USD 5,075 million as ISB’s worth USD 2,150 million mature that year.
Featured Insight
The Government Has to Repay Yearly an Average of USD 4.4 BN Foreign Debt from 2021 Onwards
The infographic shows the actual annual foreign debt service payments of GOSL (Government of Sri Lanka) from 2010 to 2020 and the projected foreign debt service payments from 2021 to 2025. The breakdown of foreign debt service between principal payments and interest payments is provided. During the period from 2010 to 2018, the annual foreign debt service payments averaged USD 2,267 million. However, GOSL witnessed a steep rise in foreign debt service payments to over USD 4,600 million in 2019, a 42% increase compared to USD 3,243 million in 2018. The Ministry of Finance projections show that GOSL on average has an annual foreign debt service payments of USD 4,432 million between 2021 and 2025. In this period, interest payment component on average will account for 25.3% of the annual foreign debt service and principal payments account for the balance 74.7%. In 2025, the foreign debt service payment is forecast to reach a peak of USD 5,075 million as ISB’s worth USD 2,150 million mature that year.
Featured Insight
The Government Has to Repay Yearly an Average of USD 4.4 BN Foreign Debt from 2021 Onwards
The infographic shows the actual annual foreign debt service payments of GOSL (Government of Sri Lanka) from 2010 to 2020 and the projected foreign debt service payments from 2021 to 2025. The breakdown of foreign debt service between principal payments and interest payments is provided. During the period from 2010 to 2018, the annual foreign debt service payments averaged USD 2,267 million. However, GOSL witnessed a steep rise in foreign debt service payments to over USD 4,600 million in 2019, a 42% increase compared to USD 3,243 million in 2018. The Ministry of Finance projections show that GOSL on average has an annual foreign debt service payments of USD 4,432 million between 2021 and 2025. In this period, interest payment component on average will account for 25.3% of the annual foreign debt service and principal payments account for the balance 74.7%. In 2025, the foreign debt service payment is forecast to reach a peak of USD 5,075 million as ISB’s worth USD 2,150 million mature that year.
Featured Insight
The Government Has to Repay Yearly an Average of USD 4.4 BN Foreign Debt from 2021 Onwards
The infographic shows the actual annual foreign debt service payments of GOSL (Government of Sri Lanka) from 2010 to 2020 and the projected foreign debt service payments from 2021 to 2025. The breakdown of foreign debt service between principal payments and interest payments is provided. During the period from 2010 to 2018, the annual foreign debt service payments averaged USD 2,267 million. However, GOSL witnessed a steep rise in foreign debt service payments to over USD 4,600 million in 2019, a 42% increase compared to USD 3,243 million in 2018. The Ministry of Finance projections show that GOSL on average has an annual foreign debt service payments of USD 4,432 million between 2021 and 2025. In this period, interest payment component on average will account for 25.3% of the annual foreign debt service and principal payments account for the balance 74.7%. In 2025, the foreign debt service payment is forecast to reach a peak of USD 5,075 million as ISB’s worth USD 2,150 million mature that year.
Data
Reports
Acts and Gazettes
Insights
Dashboards
Annual Budget Dashboard
Budget Promises
Fiscal Indicators
Fuel Price Tracker
IMF Tracker
Infrastructure Watch
PF Wire
About Us
EN
English
සිංහල
தமிழ்
;
Thank You
Free and Open Access to
Public Finance Data and Analysis
Home
Topics
Revenue
Revenue
Insights and analysis of government revenue.
Sri Lanka's Unique Revenue Problem
Tax to GDP and GDP per capita for most South Asian countries shows a positive relationship as can be show by the infographic below. For example Bhutan had a tax to GDP of 10% in and GDP per capita of 4% in the year 2000....
From The PF Wire
Source:
Daily Mirror
Excise Duty on Liquor, Wine, Beer and Fags up by 2...
Prices for cigarettes will rise, with brands increasing from Rs.85 to Rs.100, Rs.90 to Rs.105, Rs.70 to Rs.80, Rs.60 to Rs.70, and Rs.15 to Rs.24 per stick.
Read More
Source:
EconomyNext
Sri Lanka 2021 imports surge to 20.6bn amid contro...
Sri Lanka’s imports surged to 2.2 billion US dollars in December 2022 from around 1.6 to 1.7 billion US dollars in earlier months, while full year imports rose to 20.6 billion dollars, higher than the 19.9 billion US dollars in the pre...
Read More
Source:
The Island
Excise Department grapples with billions of rupees...
The continued prohibition on liquor sales due to existing travel restrictions in the country has dealt a crippling blow to the Excise Department with the loss of tax revenue exceeding a whopping Rs. 10 billion (Rs. 10,000 million) so far.
Read More
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...
page
5
of
6
‹
1
2
...
5
...
5
6
›
Featured
Sri Lanka Met 38 IMF Commitments and Failed 8 by e...
Sri Lanka verifiably met 38 of the 57 trackable commitments that were due for completion by end-August in its 17th programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), according to the latest progress up...
Read More
Expenditure Proposals: Budget 2024
Major expenditure proposals from the 2024 Budget.
Read More
Revenue Foregone by Government Due to Tax Concessi...
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...
Read More