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Sri Lanka to start resident visas for investors, workers in China Port City

A resident visa for investors and employees will be introduced.

December 20, 2022 1 min read

Sri Lanka Port, Airport, Aviation regulator give Rs2.0bn to budget

Port pays 1000mn, Airport 500mn

December 20, 2022 1 min read

Shock revelations on Sri Lanka ministers' electric defaults

Ministers overstay at official residences for years, some are now dead

December 15, 2022 2 min read

IMF chief calls on China to speed up Sri Lanka, Zambia debt overhaul

We need to .... accelerate and finalize the debt treatments for Zambia and Sri Lanka

December 10, 2022 3 min read
Paris Club urge comparable deal with Sri Lanka bond holders, seeks info

While India and several nations negotiated with the Paris Club, China negotiated on a parallel track

Sri Lanka bilateral debt repayments delayed till 2028: President

Sri Lanka will then have until 2043 to repay the loans under concessional terms

Market-based Sri Lanka fuel, electricity pricing from December

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s government has agreed to introduce automatic pricing mechanisms that ensure reta...

June 15, 2016 2 min read

Delaying reforms could derail Sri Lanka growth, IMF warns

ECONOMYNEXT – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Sri Lanka has good growth prospects if it puts its econo...

Rohan Gunasekera
June 15, 2016 3 min read

Sri Lanka Prime Minister revives capital gains tax proposal

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka will charge capital gains tax, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told parliament, reviving a t...

June 10, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka revises down revenue target after tax amendments

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka has reduced its government revenue target for 2016 due to tax amendments in this year's bu...

June 8, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka new tax shock for non-electric cars

ECONOMYNEXT, Sri Lanka's latest revision of taxes on cars has triggered price rises across the board, except for totally...

May 31, 2016 2 min read

Japan to give budget support to Sri Lanka; loan US340mn for power and water

ECONOMYNEXT - Japan fund a 38 billion yen (340 million dollar) expansion of Sri Lanka's power and water supply system an...

May 28, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka cuts tax on smaller electric cars, Tesla EV prices to soar

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka has cut taxes on popular mid-sized electric cars from 2.7 million to about 1.7 million rupees an...

May 28, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka ups taxes on larger cars, SUVs up by two million - Update

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka has cut taxes on small cars with engines capacity below 1,000 cubic centimetres but upped taxes ...

May 27, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka expects foreign aid to finance most of Rs1.7bn reconstruction

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka is expecting foreign aid to finance at least 75 percent of the 1.7 billion dollars of property d...

May 26, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka's uninsured flood victims covered by state insurance: Ravi

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's uninsured flood and landslide victims can submit claims to the disaster management office to g...

May 25, 2016 1 min read
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Sri Lanka appoints managers for billion dollar sovereign bond: Finance Minister

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka has appointed eight financial institutions to manage a sovereign bond of at least a billion US d...

May 25, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka in talks for USS500mn loan with Credit Suisse; Sukuk eyed

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka is in talks with Credit Suisse to float a 500 million dollar loan after a similar sized loan wit...

May 25, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka to wrap up US$500mn syndicated loan next week: Finance Minister

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka is expecting to wrap a 500 million US dollar loan over the next few days after legal agreements ...

May 25, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka urged to join global tax transparency initiative

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka should consider joining the tax transparency initiative promoted by the Organisation for ...

May 12, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka reforms urgent, govt borrowing to meet daily needs: Central Bank

ECONOMYNEXT – The Sri Lankan government is forced to borrow to even meet its daily spending requirements, making ...

May 11, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka should put purely commercial SOEs in Singapore-style holding Co: economists

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka should only place state enterprises with pure commercial objectives in a planned holding company...

May 7, 2016 3 min read

Sri Lanka budget targets, tax collection path could be bumpy: Moody's

ECONOMYNEXT - A deal with the International Monetary Fund would boost foreign reserves, but tax collections and smaller ...

May 5, 2016 4 min read

Sri Lanka's economic plan with IMF could slow growth, tough to implement: Fitch

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's economic plan agreed with the International Monetary Fund would be tough to implement and coul...

May 3, 2016 4 min read

Sri Lanka seeks to raise $685 million from a tax increase

COLOMBO, May 1 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka is seeking to raise Rs100 billion ($685.6 million) in revenue in 2016 by increasing...

May 3, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka customs code white paper soon; new income tax law in 2017: FinMin

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka will release a white paper on a new customs code this year, and a new income tax law will go int...

May 2, 2016 1 min read