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Will the Increase in Cigarette Taxes Meet Budgeted Revenue?
On the 1st of Jan 2023, the government increased excises taxes on cigarettes by 20% as follows: Size Old Excise Tax per Cigarette New Excise Tax per Cigarette...
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Sri Lanka cigarette taxes down amid legal sales fa...
Sri Lanka’s Ceylon Tobacco Company said its March quarter cigarette sales were down from a year earlier, leading to an absolute revenue fall as well amid tax hikes and an economic slowdown.
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Sri Lanka cuts tea export tax, abolishes regulatio...
Sri Lanka has cut an export tax on tea to 3 rupees a kilogram and abolished a regulation issued in 2010 dealing with the collection and use of the money for promotions, according a government notice. 
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Sri Lanka has little tax money left after paying s...
“In 2020 the revenue of the government was 1,373 billion rupees,” Minister Bandula Gunawardena told parliament. “To pay the salaries of state workers 794 billion rupees are used. To pay pensions another 258 billion rupees a...
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Insight on Revenue
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...
Tobacco Policy: Mitigating the Influence...
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IMF Article IV Report – Key Issues and Recommendat...
Under Article IV of the IMF's Articles of Agreement, IMF holds bilateral discussions with its member countries every year. In 2021 IMF held discussions with Sri Lanka officials and the report was completed on Febru...
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Wanted: An Authentic Minister of Finance - Sri Lan...
This article was compiled by Professor Mick Moore. Professor Mick Moore is a political economist and Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development St...
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Quantifying grants received by Sri Lanka from 1973...
Since independence, Sri Lanka has been the recipient of bilateral and multilateral grants that have supported various initiatives, including knowledge transfers, health and education improvements, infrastructure development, and critical hum...
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