Research Director Subhashini Abeysinghe on ‘Public Space Sri Lanka’

FinMin  cuts indirect taxes on several essential items Relief package to be reviewed in 2-3 months FinMin claims tax cuts not related to local govt.  elections The Finance and Mass Media Ministry yesterday issued another pre-budget bonanza, this time to...

Sri Lankans will get an insight tomorrow (November 9) on how the year 2018 will be for them and the country. The 72nd Budget of Sri Lanka will be presented to Parliament at 3 pm by it’s 21st Minister of...

Status of most Budget 2017 proposals unclear No information on progress of 51% of key proposals accounting for Rs. 67 b Only one proposal reviewed was ahead of schedule, 32% lagging, 14% removed As the country prepares for the unveiling of Budget 2018,...

With less than a fortnight to go for the 2018 Budget, the country has been kept in the dark over half of the pledges made in the 2017 Budget amounting to over Rs. 65 billion, leaving taxpayers to grin and...

With the presentation of the national 2018 budget just two weeks away, this week’s Thursday morning was spent reflecting on the country’s enormous debt and the legacy of a Treasury with a bottomless pit that would be left to the...

Budgets prepared by successive Sri Lankan governments based on inaccurate revenue estimates lead to unexpected spending cuts and broken promises, investigations by Verité Research, a think-tank, has found. The new tax law introduced by the government, which simplified and ensures...

The government remains weakest in terms of information disclosures and openness. Thus, information on the progress of 51 percent of the 2017 budget pledges is not forthcoming, Verite Research Assistant Analyst Nilangika Fernando said. "We selected for study 37 state...

A research firm has found out that promises included in the 2017 budget shows poor action with over a half of key budget proposals remain weakest even in terms of information disclosure. Launching an online platform for tracking budget promises,...

The government must follow through on its budget promises in order for business to succeed in Sri Lanka, said Ramal Jasinghe, the president of the National Chamber of Exporters He was speaking at the Sri Lanka Press Institute yesterday at...