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by Jehan Perera President Ranil Wickremesinghe notched up another achievement when Parliament ratified the Domestic Debt Restructuring (DDR) programme with a majority of 60 votes, with 122 members voting for and 62 against, with 40 abstentions. Parliamentarians who would need to think about their re-election prospects would have been reluctant to vote for a programme […]
- Non-Recurrence Requires Accountability (Category: Breaking News)
- CB Governor outlines importance of DDR to protect banks and save overall economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Self-serving love (Category: Breaking News)
- Proposed Pension Scheme will not deny benefits (Category: Breaking News)
By N Sathiya Moorthy In his Hajj message last week, President Ranil Wickremesinghe called upon all Sri Lankans to remain ‘united in a common cause to achieve our domestic, regional and global goals’. Yet, a day later, his leadership was seen as having split the political Opposition over the domestic debt restructuring issue in Parliament, indicating […]
- ‘Presidential control over DDO undermines power of Parliament’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Opposition to vote against debt restructuring plan (Category: Breaking News)
- National consensus on debt and economy, need of the hour (Category: Breaking News)
- Whoever wields power under 22-A, will Mahinda continue to ‘rule’? (Category: Breaking News)
The JVP yesterday said that those who had voted for the government’s Domestic Debt Optimisation (DDO) plan in Parliament on Saturday should apologise to the country’s workforce for having endangered the EPF.Addressing the media at the party office in Pelawatte, the former MP and Politburo member Sunil Handunnetti said that the DDO plan would adversely […]
- Proposed domestic debt optimization strategy passed in Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- Second DDO possible if targets of current one not achieved  CBSL governor (Category: Breaking News)
- COPF green-lights proposed domestic debt restructuring program (Category: Breaking News)
- Parliamentary debate on domestic debt restructuring program today (Category: Breaking News)
By Shamindra Ferdinando Dissident SLPP MP Gevindu Cumaratunga has strongly opposed the government move to place the debt-restructuring programme under President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s control as the latter does not represent Parliament. Addressing Parliament on Saturday (01), the leader of civil society group ‘Yuthukama’ pointed out that the Resolution on the Domestic Debt Optimisation (DDO) was [...
- Over 70% salary hike for CBSL employees: Gevindu demands explanation from FM (Category: Breaking News)
- MP drops bombshell over EPF discrepancy, demands immediate remedy (Category: Breaking News)
- Proposed domestic debt optimization strategy passed in Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- SLPP dissidents ask govt. to bring back USD 35 bn ‘parked’ overseas (Category: Breaking News)
frowns on privileged status to wealthy investors, bid to restore dissolved LG bodies By Shamindra Ferdinando Top Opposition Spokesman Prof. G. L. Peiris yesterday (02) demanded that the government cancel, what he called, the deeply flawed ‘Aswesuma’ social security project, to pave the way for a fresh scheme. Addressing the media at the Nawala Office […]
- GL: Cost of living intolerable, street protests inevitable (Category: Breaking News)
- SLPP rebels issue warning over labour reforms, question motives of Prez (Category: Breaking News)
- Gov Defeated Powers Against SL at the UN (Category: Breaking News)
- Will not allow Batticaloa Campus to function as a private body Edu. Minister (Category: Breaking News)
සේවක අර්ථසාධක අරමුදල කොල්ල කන ක්රියාවලියට පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ බහුතර අනුමැතිය ලබාදීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් විරෝධය පළ කරන බව ජාතික ජන බලවේගයේ ජාතික විධායක […]The post EPF කොල්ල කන ක්රියාවලියට පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ බහුතර අනුමැතිය ලබාදීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් අපේ විරෝධය පළ කරනවා – සුනිල් හඳුන්නෙත්ති appeared
ආණ්ඩුව දේශීය ණය කපාහැරීමේදී සේවක අර්ථසාදක අරමුදල ඇතුළු විශ්රාම වැටුප් අරමුදල්වල සාමාජිකයින්ගේ මුදල් කපා හැරෙන ආකාරය පිළිබඳව වෙරිටේ රිසර්ච් ආයතනයේ […]The post රනිල් නෑ කිව්වත් EPF කපන හැටි දත්ත සහිතව මෙන්න appeared first on Lanka Truth | සිංහල | Latest and Breaking News from Sri Lanka.
about burden falling on superannuation funds esp #EPF without […]
- JVP moves SC to prevent possible losses to EPF, ETF (Category: Breaking News)
- EPF to participate in Treasury Bond exchange under DDO (Category: Breaking News)
- Interest paid on EPF deposits not affected by DDR process - CBSL governor (Category: Breaking News)
- Domestic debt restructuring: Harsha insists money belonging to EPF members must be safeguarded (Category: Breaking News)
සේවක අර්ථ සාධක අරමුදල, සේවක භාරකාර අරමුදල සහ බැංකු ක්ෂේත්රය සුරක්ෂිත බවට සහතික වූ අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා ජූලි පළමු වෙනිදාට යෙදෙන මහජන බැංකුවේ උපන් දිනයට අද පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී සුබ පැතුම්The post සේවක අරමුදල් හා බැංකු ක්ෂේත්රය සුරක්ෂිත බවට අගමැති සහතික වෙයි appeared first on ITN News.
- “ICC යට අපි ගරු කරනවා සේම අපේ රටේ නීතියට ද ගරු කරන්න” – අමාත්ය රොෂාන් රණසිංහ (Category: Sinhala)
- අපේ පවුලේ ප්රශ්නය (Category: Breaking News)
- සමරිසි හැසිරීම් හා අපේ සංස්කෘතිය – අවසන් කොටස (Category: Breaking News)
- සමරිසි හැසිරීම් හා අපේ සංස්කෘතිය – පළමුවන කොටස (Category: Breaking News)
දේශීය ණය ප්රතිව්යූහගත කිරිමේ යෝජනා සම්මත කිරීමටත් පෙර පොලී ප්රතිශත කපා හැරිමේ ක්රියාවලිය දියත් කර ඇති ආකාරය වෙරිටේ රිසර්ච් ආයතනයේ […]The post සම්මත කිරිමටත් පෙර EPF කපලා – තොරතුරු මෙන්න appeared first on Lanka Truth | සිංහල | Latest and Breaking News from Sri Lanka.
දේශීය ණය ප්රතිව්යුහගතකරණයට මුවා වී සේවක අර්ථසාදක අරමුදල බිලිදීමට එරෙහිව අන්තර් සමාගම් සේවක සංගසය විසින් පසුගියදා ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය හමුවේ ගොනු කළ […]The post EPF බිලිදීමට එරෙහි ICEU නඩුව කැඳවීම 13 appeared first on Lanka Truth | සිංහල | Latest and Breaking News from Sri Lanka.
Sri Lankan state can’t allow even a small bank to collapse because that will trigger a bank run with a devastating impact on the economy. Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka CBSL) Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe said, on Thursday night, taking part in a televised discussion. Dr. Weerasinghe said that Domestic Debt Restructuring (DDR) […]
- EPF asked to pay 30% tax unless it participates in domestic debt restructuring process (Category: Breaking News)
- Governance issues, etc., will have to be sorted out to avert further debt restructuring: Verité ... (Category: Breaking News)
- SJB to present amendment to EPF act (Category: Breaking News)
- COPF discusses effect of domestic debt restructuring on EPF (Category: Breaking News)
By Saman Indrajith Most opposition political parties yesterday vowed to defeat the government’s proposed debt restructuring plan when Parliament convenes today at 9.30 a.m.Secretary General of the Parliament, Kushani Rohanadeera said she informed all Members about the meeting, according to the instructions of Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena. The Speaker has also issued a Gazette Extraordinary [...
- Inland Revenue and Appropriation Acts to be amended in line with debt restructuring (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. still undecided about domestic debt restructuring methods (Category: Breaking News)
- Siyambalapitiya alleges move to trigger run on banks (Category: Breaking News)
- EPF asked to pay 30% tax unless it participates in domestic debt restructuring process (Category: Breaking News)
සේවක අර්ථසාධක අරමුදල සහ සේවානියුක්තියන්ගේ භාරකාර අරමුදලෙන් රජය ලබාගෙන තිබෙන ණය කපාහැරිම පිළිඳව කිසිදු නිල දැනුම්දීමක් එම අරමුදල් ප්රධානීන්ට මේ […]The post EPF/ETF අරමුදල් ප්රධානීන් කිසිවක් දන්නේ නැහැ – රනිල්, නන්දලාල්ගේ ගේම විජිත හේරත් දිගහරියි appeared first on Lanka Truth | සිංහල
රජයේ වතු සමාගම් යටතේ සේවය කරන වතු කම්කරුවන්ට සේවක අර්ථසාධක අරමුදල (EPF) සහ සේවක භාරකාර අරමුදල (ETF) ගෙවීම සඳහා විශේෂ කැබිනට් පත්රිකාවක් ළඟදීම ඉදිරිපත් කරන බව අමාත්ය රමේෂ් පතිරණ මහතාThe post වතු කම්කරුවන්ට (EPF) සහ (ETF) ගෙවන්න කැබිනට් පත්රිකාවක් ඉදිරිපත් කරන බවට ඇමති රමේෂ් සහතික වෙයි appeared
- වතු කම්කරුවන්ගේ ETF සහ EPF හිඟය ගෙවන්න කැබිනට් පත්රිකාවක් (Category: Sinhala)
- වැවිලි සමාගම් වතු කම්කරු වැටුප 700ක් කිරීමට එකඟ වෙයි (Category: Sinhala)
- වැවිලි සමාගම් වතු කම්කරු වැටුප 700ක් කිරීමට එකඟ වෙයි (Category: Sinhala)
රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ අගමැති ධුරය දැරූ 2015 – 2019 කාලයේ ඩොලර් බිලියන 13කට ආසන්න විදේශ වාණිජ ණය ලබාගැනීමේ ප්රති විපාකයක් ලෙස […]The post රනිල්, නන්දලාල් තර්ජනය EPF එකට බිහිසුනුයි – සාක්ෂි මෙන්න! appeared first on Lanka Truth | සිංහල | Latest and Breaking News from Sri Lanka.
දේශීය ණය ප්රශස්තකරණය පිළිබඳ සත්ය තත්ත්වය ජනතාව හමුවේ තැබීමේ සුවිශේෂ කාර්යභාරයක් ව්යාපාරික ප්රජාවට සහ වෘත්තීය සමිති නියෝජිතයින් වෙත පැවරී තිබෙන බව ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා පවසනවා. සැබෑ තත්ත්වය පැහැදිළි කිරීමෙන්The post ණය ප්රශස්තකරණය පිළිබඳ සත්ය තත්ත්වය ජනතාවට පැහැදිළි කර දෙන්න – ජනපති appeared first on ITN News.
- දේශීය ණය ප්රශස්තකරණය නිසා EPF/ ETF අරමුදල් සුරක්ෂිතයි – ශ්රී ලංකා බැංකු සංගමය (Category: Sinhala)
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Banks, which pay taxes over 50%, least affected By Sanath Nanayakkare If the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) and other pension funds did not wish to participate in the proposed domestic debt restructuring process, there will be an application of higher annual income tax of 30%, Central Bank
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දේශීය ණය ප්රශස්තකරණයේ දී දැනටමත් 50%කට වැඩි බදු මගින් භාණ්ඩාගාරයට සහ ආර්ථිකයට දායක වන බැංකු පද්ධතිය මත තවදුරටත් බරක් පටවන්නේ නැති බවත් මිලියන 57ක් වන මෙරට රාජ්ය සහ පෞද්ගලික බැංකුThe post මිලියන 57ක මෙරට බැංකු තැන්පතු ආරක්ෂා කරන බවට මහ බැංකු අධිපතිගෙන් සහතිකයක් appeared first on ITN News.
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Sri Lanka's banking system would not be burdened any further as it already contributes to the Treasury and economy through taxes of over 50%, the Central Bank Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe said.The post Sri Lanka’s Central Bank Governor explains debt restructuring process appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
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Central Bank governor says the 9% interest paid on the Employee Provident Fund (EPF) deposits will not be affected by the domestic debt restructuring (DDR) process.
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දේශීය ණය කපා හැරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් කිසිදු විනිවිද භාවයකින් තොරව ක්රියාකරණ ආණ්ඩුව සහ ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව භාණ්ඩාගාර බැඳුම්කර කෙරෙහි මූලික […]The post ණය කැපීමේ දැඩි කම්පනය – බැංකු පද්ධතියට 44% පනියි – EPF එකට 42% පනියි appeared first on Lanka Truth | සිංහල | Latest and Breaking News
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Declaring that the government had been compelled to go ahead with the debt restructuring programme, President Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday (27) assured that it wouldn’t have a detrimental impact on both state and private banking sectors. The assurance was given at the opening of a new building at the Gampaha District Secretariat premises. President Wickremesinghe said […]
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