Category: Budget

Sri Lanka’s government is likely to announce ambitious spending plans to help low-income groups and farmers when it presents its 2006 budget proposals next week, analysts say. Sri Lanka’s government is likely to announce ambitious spending plans to help low-income groups and farmers when it presents its 2006 budget proposals next week, analysts say. The […]

The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce wants a pre-election budgetary position made public, before the Presidential election.The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce wants a pre-election budgetary position made public, before the Presidential election. Sri Lanka’s leading trade chamber wants the government to amend the Fiscal Management (Responsibility) Act, to allow a pre-election fiscal report before a Presidential […]

Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister is promising to give paid paternity leave, duty free vehicles for good taxpayers, free spectacles for the disable, and splash out billions of rupees by way of welfare subsidies, if he wins next month’s presidential poll, his party said Tuesday. Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister is promising to give paid paternity leave, […]