Banks have no dollars for LCs. Will this be paid for in #SriLanka rupees? Or from the Yuan swaps? Why is this an urgent purchase that cannot be postponed?
"If the overall tax revenue has to be increased while a component making up around one quarter has to be phased out, there is no alternative but to increase the yield from income taxes (now 34%) and domestic consumption-based taxes such as VAT (now 36%)."
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SC quashes Presidential Pardon granted to Jude Jayamaha in Royal Park case. Time for Maithripala and MP Ven Athuraliye Rathana to leave politics. There must be political accountability.
"Of the many hallucinatory images Modi has summoned up recently, one is particularly striking: that of the opposition robbing the Indian woman’s mangalsutra." https://t.co/hVMTiaM71E
Jaffna Managers Forum is working with Northern Provincial Council to identify priority areas for economic development. Contributions from the service sector to the revival of the economy of the Northern Province is a piece published in 2018. https://t.co/sPi8PjThH9
"The JVP has come a long way from Wijeweera’s promises to expropriate all foreign investments . . Hopefully, these exchanges will help the JVP shed some more of the ancient baggage they’ve been carrying, starting with the national plan nostrum." https://t.co/G1Qj4DADEv
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"Economies throughout history have brought in prosperity and wealth to people by being interdependent and not by being independent. That is because the goal of attaining self-sufficiency in everything which a nation needs is impracticable." WA Wijewardena https://t.co/yzTaq9ryQ4
Dropping "Lanka Limited" after Heineken in the headlines gives it a whole different meaning. I thought Harry J. had hit the big time. https://t.co/oEYmenmYVv
“Water can’t be free anywhere, because you can’t run a sustainable water supply without pricing it,” he said. “That would apply to the globe."
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