Presently, Sri Lanka is struggling with acute food and electricity shortages … (Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the …
Can Sri Lanka dig itself out of a $50 billion debt?
Ishara S. Kodikara for AFP via Getty Images After a month of intense civilian-led protests over Sri Lanka’s deteriorating economy, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa agreed to appoint a new council on …
Can Sri Lanka dig itself out of a $50 billion debt?
Ishara S. Kodikara for AFP via Getty Images After a month of intense civilian-led protests over Sri Lanka’s deteriorating economy, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa agreed to appoint a new council on …
No choice but to raise sales tax: Sri Lanka finance chief Ali Sabry
Sri Lanka’s finance minister has told the BBC he has no choice but to hike the country’s sales tax as it faces its worst ever economic crisis. In an exclusive interview, Ali Sabry conceded the …
No choice but to hike VAT: Sri Lanka finance chief
Sri Lanka’s finance minister has told the BBC he has no choice but to hike the country’s sales tax as it faces its worst ever economic crisis. In an exclusive interview, Ali Sabry conceded the …
No choice but to raise sales tax: Sri Lanka finance chief Ali Sabry
Sri Lanka’s finance minister has told the BBC he has no choice but to hike the country’s sales tax as it faces its worst ever economic crisis. In an exclusive interview, Ali Sabry conceded the …
No choice but to raise sales tax: Sri Lanka finance chief Ali Sabry
Sri Lanka’s finance minister has told the BBC he has no choice but to hike the country’s sales tax as it faces its worst ever economic crisis. In an exclusive interview, Ali Sabry conceded the …
No choice but to hike VAT: Sri Lanka finance chief
Sri Lanka’s finance minister has told the BBC he has no choice but to hike the country’s sales tax as it faces its worst ever economic crisis. In an exclusive interview, Ali Sabry conceded the …
How The Rajapaksas Ruined Sri Lanka In 30 Months
The finance minister at the time, Mangala Samaraweera, called a briefing to assail the “dangerous” pledge to reduce the value-added tax to eight percent from 15 percent and to scrap other levies. To …
A political reckoning in Sri Lanka as debt crisis grows
Sherry Fonseka joined millions in 2019 in electing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a military strategist whose brutal campaign helped end Sri Lanka’s 30-year civil war 10 years earlier.