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[…]The post Changing Pillows To Cure Headaches: Politicians—Constitutional Amendment Mess appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Immediate Governmental Actions Needed (Category: Breaking News)
- Debt Trap, Lack Of Accountability & Blunders (Category: Breaking News)
- Lack Of Accountability, Ability & Credibility (Category: Breaking News)
- The First Step Of Aragalaya Is Completed: What Is Next? (Category: Breaking News)
The Government has decided to increase the Value Added Tax (VAT) from 8% to 12% and the Telecommunications Levy from 11.23% to 15%. The Prime Minister’s Office said that Sri Lanka introduced a low tax regime in late 2019. The reforms included the reduction of tax rates of Value Added Tax, Personal Income Tax (PIT) […]
- Taxable income of individuals revised (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF defends tax hike in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Social Security Contribution Levy Bill passed (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka seeks temporary relief from debt defaults till 2027 (Category: Breaking News)
A new visa scheme for foreign investors to invest, live and study in Sri Lanka was launched today. The launching ceremony of the ‘Golden Paradise Visa Scheme’ was held under the aegis of Central Bank Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe and Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne at the Department of Immigration and Emigration, Battaramulla today (May […]
- Turkey shifts visa applications in Sri Lanka to authorized agent (Category: Breaking News)
- Accepting applications for passports temporarily suspended (Category: Breaking News)
- Fake and fraudulent web URLs offer Indian e-Visa (Category: Breaking News)
- Visa applications from Sri Lanka in 2022 saw significant increase (Category: Breaking News)
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) today reassured its commitment to ensuring the availability of foreign exchange within the banking system for the importation of essential goods, including the food items. The Ministry of Finance issued Import Control Regulations on Payment Terms No.07 of 2022, dated 06 May 2022, and to be effective from […]
- CBSL warns market players of stern action (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka CB takes on task finding dollars for food after open account ban (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan residents permitted to have maximum of USD 10,000 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka confirms will not accept MIR payment system (Category: Breaking News)
CBSL would like to reassure its commitment to ensuring foreign exchange within the banking system for food
- Central Bank assures foreign exchange to import essential goods (Category: Breaking News)
- Central Bank instructs further restriction of importing non-essential goods (Category: Breaking News)
- CBSL warns market players of stern action (Category: Breaking News)
- CBSL reassures commitment to ensuring availability of foreign exchange for import of essentials (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Sri Lanka Tamils: No Choice But To Join GotaGoGama, Stay Put Or Go Abroad appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Church Of Ceylon In Anarchy: Caste & Affirmative Action (Category: Breaking News)
- Identity In Choice: The Problem Caste In Christianity (Category: Breaking News)
- Hamaduru Ethics Or Deontology? The Challenge Before Modern Sri Lankans (Category: Breaking News)
- Minorities Within Minorities Bullied Into Giving-Up Their Right To Convert & Be Converted Religion (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post A Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: Has The Monetary Board Failed The Nation? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: Steve Hanke’s Crusade For Currency Boards (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: The Performance Of Ceylon’s Currency Board (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Boards: Why Did Ceylon Give Up The Currency Board, While Singapore D... (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: How Colonial Ceylon Did It? (Category: Breaking News)
Times are extraordinary with the macro stresses clearly unprecedented
- Sri Lanka’s NTB profits down 12-pct in March quarter (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s People’s Leasing net down 37-pct in March (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Sampath Bank’s Profit down by 4.9-pct (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Hatton National Bank net up in March 2022 quarter (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Never-Ending Political Games; Country Is At Peril appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Attempt To Pull The Wool Over People’s Eyes: 21A To Bamboozle The Citizens (Category: Breaking News)
- The Morning Prayer Of Rajapaksas: Ranil Saranam Gachchāmi (Category: Breaking News)
- Interim Or Military Government; Time To Free Us From Despotism (Category: Breaking News)
- The Latest Laughingstock In The Parliament: Holding Mohini’s Baby (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Dollar Crunch & Expanding Horizons appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- IMF – Eagerly Awaited – Desperation Grows! (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget 2023: A Depth Or Dearth (Category: Breaking News)
- Current Political Scenario: Smoke & Mirrors (Category: Breaking News)
- Reducing The Tax Burden (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post What Can Ranil Get Done? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- RW Vs. GR: Who Will Outwit Whom? (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil: A SWOT Appraisal (Category: Breaking News)
- Hold Elections & Avert A Dual-Power Crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil-SWOT: A Reappraisal (Category: Breaking News)
Investors are waiting for cues from budget proposals, new government's policies to achieve stability
- Sri Lanka stocks fall on concerns over fuel shortage, political instability (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka shares fall on profit taking (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka stocks up after cabinet appointment amid concerns (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka shares gain close to 2-pct in mid-day trade (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post 1972: A Historic Opportunity Missed appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Fifty Years As A Republic: The Making Of The 1972 Constitution (Category: Breaking News)
- SC On 22A – Part II: Enhancing The Constitution’s Rigidity (Category: Breaking News)
- Important But Imperfect: Recommendations On The Draft 21st Amendment To The Constitution Bill (Category: Breaking News)
- 1972: A Majoritarian Constitution (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Current System & Unlawful Actions appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Preventing Crooks From Entering The Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- Government Brutalities Against Protesters (Category: Breaking News)
- Changing Pillows To Cure Headaches: Government Servants Are Not Gods (Category: Breaking News)
- Anarchy & Abuse Of Power By Politicians (Category: Breaking News)
Abans Finance, AMW Capital Leasing and Finance and Richard Pieris Finance Limited on Rating
- Fitch downgrades long-term ratings of 10 Sri Lankan Banks (Category: Breaking News)
- Fitch affirms rating on 15 Sri Lankan Banks – Removes Watch Negative (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Bank of Ceylon downgraded to RD (Category: Breaking News)
- Fitch Revises Commercial Leasing’s Outlook to Negative (Category: Breaking News)
New Prime Minister is expected to present a new budget with higher tax, reduced government spending
- Sri Lanka shares fall on profit taking (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sells Rs81bn in Treasuries, yields steady (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sells Rs127bn in bonds, 2032 on tap at 30.09-pct (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka stocks gain on financials; Sampath Bank leads (Category: Breaking News)
By Easwaran Rutnam The United Kingdom (UK) is in talks with Paris Club members on potential solutions to Sri Lanka’s unsustainable debt. The Paris Club is a group of officials from major creditor countries whose role is to find co-ordinated and sustainable solutions to the payment difficulties experienced by debtor countries UK Parliamentary Under-Secretary at […]
- UK calls for inclusive approach to resolve crisis in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- UK recognises economic challenges in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to seek assistance from Paris Club and G7 (Category: Breaking News)
- UK dismayed at use of violence against protesters in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Analysts expect market to fall with government's expected fiscal consolidation plan
- Sri Lanka shares fall on profit taking (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sells Rs81bn in Treasuries, yields steady (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sells Rs127bn in bonds, 2032 on tap at 30.09-pct (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka stocks gain on financials; Sampath Bank leads (Category: Breaking News)
The central bank has tightened the monetary policy, allowed sharp depreciation in the rupee to attract dollar inflows
- Rocky Road (Category: Business)
- Not Under (Category: Business)
- Excess Liquidity (Category: Business)
- New Banks in North and East (Category: Breaking News)
“What the international community is looking for is long-term policy credibility and sustainability."
- Sri Lanka’s business mogul Dhammika Perera attempts to bring hope after govt failures (Category: Breaking News)
- EXPLAINER – Sri Lanka people’s hopes fade as monetary stability eludes new PM (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF says talks with Sri Lanka make significant policy progress (Category: Breaking News)
- Crisis-hit Sri Lanka’s interim budget aims ambitious revenue, debt cut targets (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka's 2022 economic growth will see the worst ever contraction in its history - CB chief
- Sri Lanka stocks fall after fuel price hike (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka shares fall on profit taking (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka stocks edge down on tax hike worries after PM appointed as new finmin (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka stocks gain on financials; Sampath Bank leads (Category: Breaking News)
Motorists around the country have queued for fuel, but the government was unable to supply.
- Sri Lanka stocks fall after fuel price hike (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka stocks down on fuel price hike, CB chief’s worst growth comment (Category: Breaking News)
- Amid long fuel queues, over 100 arrested in Sri Lanka for hoarding (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka shares slump to one-month low; foreigners exit after PM’s cautioning (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Politics Of Default appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- IMF Must Become More Than Just A Debt Collector For Private Creditors (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF Facility? Is It Sufficient To Deliver Prosperity To Sri Lankans? (Category: Breaking News)
- Deepening Crisis & Political Muddling (Category: Breaking News)
- Crisis Deepens Without Rescue Plan (Category: Breaking News)
In our expectations the economy will contract at the highest rate than in any other year in history
- Rate Status (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka may see $1.2b balance of payments surplus in 2012 (Category: Breaking News)
- Central Bank warns on economic growth of SriLanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Rate Direction (Category: Business)
Cabraal kept the exchange rate artificially steady while spending reserves for foreign debt repayment.
- Govt. may stop supplying dollars (Category: Breaking News)
- SL’s defence cost only US 5.5bln dollars (Category: Breaking News)
- Cost of Sri Lanka's war a vital investment, Governor of Central Bank says (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankas international sovereign bond oversubscribed CB govenor (Category: Breaking News)
Cabraal has been prevented leaving the country from April 7
- President pays last respects to Central Bank Governor's mother (Category: Breaking News)
- President pays last respects to Central Bank Governor’s mother (Category: Breaking News)
- I'm not bother on Ranil's statement: Central Bank Governor (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Now is the time to invest in Sri Lanka' (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: Steve Hanke’s Crusade For Currency Boards appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: Has The Monetary Board Failed The Nation? (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Boards: Why Did Ceylon Give Up The Currency Board, While Singapore D... (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: The Performance Of Ceylon’s Currency Board (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: How Colonial Ceylon Did It? (Category: Breaking News)
The debt was repaid in 2021 by running down foreign reserves and putting the central bank in debt
- Sri Lanka central bank US$4.0bn in debt by March 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka monthly imports fall to 11-year low in July 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka central bank deep in debt, dollar shortages at ‘guidance’ rate : Wijewardena (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka to lend US$2.5bn to US and top-rated borrowers in 2023 under IMF deal: analysis (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post A Cabinet Of Patriotic Opportunists appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Economic Realities & Political Promises (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil’s Post-IMF Challenge (Category: Breaking News)
- Parliament Of Monkeys (Category: Breaking News)
- Muslim Politics & National Crises (Category: Breaking News)
The new government yet come up with some concrete steps to come out of Sri Lanka's unprecedented economic crisis
- Sri Lanka’s NTB profits down 12-pct in March quarter (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s People’s Leasing net down 37-pct in March (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Haycarb March net up on forex gains (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sells Rs80bn in mostly 3-month bills, down 18bp (Category: Breaking News)
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