Category: Budget
Budget Speech 2023 – Highlights
President and Finance Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is delivering the Second Reading of the Appropriation Bill for the financial year 2023 in Parliament. Economic Outlook We are expecting a positive outcome from debt talks; we were able to manage inflation. Vietnam used to follow our stystem but they are ahead of us now; their main income […]
‘s interim budget proposals at a glance
A summary of President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s interim budget speech is as follows; By 2025 Government revenue is expected to grow to around 15 percent of GDP from 8.2 percent. The government targeting a primary surplus of more than 2 percent of GDP in 2025 with expectations to improve further. Government intends to reduce public sector […]
‘s Interim Budget Speech – 2022 (Full Text)
Full text of the Interim Budget Speech – 2022 (Amendment to the Appropriation Act, No. 30 of 2021) delivered by President Ranil Wickremesinghe in parliament today (30) “Our aim is to create a surplus in the primary budget by the year 2025. Our effort is to stabilize the economic growth rate. Our aspiration is to […]
We want to restructure only foreign debt &’s a win-win situation, CB Governor reiterates
Central Bank Governor reiterated on Thursday that the government’s position about debt restructuring remains the same and intends to restructure only the external debt. “What the President recently said was that the financial advisors are looking at the scenarios of any restructuring of domestic debt. But the government position still remains that we intend to […]
CB Governor & Treasury Secretary outlines govt’s recovery plan at CA Sri Lanka Budget Seminar
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) organised the Annual Budget Seminar where top government officials and business leaders came onto a single platform to share their views on the government’s national budget for 2022. The keynote speech was delivered by Ajith Nivard Cabraal, Governor of Central Bank who outlined the […]
Budget 2022 Proposals: Reactions from IPS Researchers
Dr Dushni Weerakoon Budget 2022 appears to be more of a stop-gap budget rather than one that sets out a framework on how revenues will continue to be mobilised and deficit financing requirements met over time. It seems that the government is hedging its bets on economic growth creating revenues, but with inflation set to […]
Budget 2022: Download Full Budget Speech
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Sri Lanka Budget 2022 – LIVE Coverage
The Minister of Finance Basil Rajapaksa is delivering the Second Reading of the Appropriation Bill for the financial year 2022 in Parliament. Finance Minister presenting the budget said “We are presenting the budget amid five global challenges and many countries are focussing on internal problems, there are climate problems, inflation and Coronavirus crises has disrupted […]
CA Sri Lanka submits budget proposals to Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa
In its standing as the National Body of Accountants, officials of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) recently met with the Minister of Finance, Basil Rajapaksa, and the Secretary to the Treasury, S R Attygalle, to discuss the upcoming National Budget for 2022. During two separate meetings, the Chairman of the CA […]
Country will fall into disaster if budget 2022 fails to infuse confidence amongst global community: Eran
The finance minister who assumed duty declaring he is the finance minister without money has huge challenges to overcome through the Budget – 2022 which we are expecting next week on November 12, said SJB Parliamentarian Eran Wickramaratne speaking at a Press Conference. “We must wait and see what he has to say. One of […]
A non-traditional budget will be presented this time: PB Jayasundera
Secretary to the President P. B. Jayasundera said that he believes a budget with a new vision and programme that goes beyond the traditional budget will be presented to the country this time. buy flexeril online https://qpharmacorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/png/flexeril.html no prescription pharmacy The Secretary to the President said that the priority will be given to the fields […]