Verite Research

State Revenue: What Happened to the Tax Amnesty?

by |22 January 202224 January 2022|Verité in the News

Published on The Morning IRD refuses to provide info on tax amnesty funds Tax amnesties in SL have been ineffective: Think tank Balance between voluntary tax compliance and deterrence needed The Government of Sri Lanka last year presented a controversial...

CIPE-COSMI Team Up to Boost Participatory Governance in Large-Scale Infrastructure Projects

by |22 January 202224 January 2022|Verité in the News

Published on DailyFT The Centre for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) and the Confederation of Micro, Small and Medium Industries (COSMI) have exchanged an agreement on an advocacy program that assists communities affected by large-scale infrastructure projects in Sri Lanka alongside...

Sri Lanka CenBank May Raise Rates as Inflation Pressure Builds

by |18 January 202221 January 2022|Verité in the News

Published on Reuters The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) is likely to raise interest rates at its first policy announcement in 2022 to tackle growing price pressures, manage external challenges and reduce pressure on the rupee, economists and analysts...

Budget Fails to Establish Stable Fiscal Regime: Verité Research

by |09 December 202110 December 2021|Verité in the News

Published on The Morning Issuing a public report on Budget 2022 ahead of third budget reading, Colombo-based think tank Verité Research said that Budget 2022 fails in establishing a stable fiscal regime. “In January 2020, a new tax structure was...

Port City – What Next?

by |27 May 202114 October 2021|Verité in the News

Published on Colombo Telegraph There may be differences in semicolons and adjectives but broadly speaking the SJB of Sajith P and the UNP (still loyal to Ranil?) have very similar positions on the Port City Act. They are in agreement that many...

Budget proposals need to be feasible; Nishan De Mel

by |17 March 202017 March 2020|Verité in the News

Taken from News1st Budget Proposals advertised in the budget are not implemented because they were not seen as feasible, Verité Research Economist, Nishan De Mel said. De Mel, highlighted the importance of budget proposals to be implemented with detailed estimates...

Economist urges need for credible fiscal roadmap

by |17 March 202017 March 2020|Verité in the News

Taken from DailyMirror Sri Lanka would need to demonstrate the return to a credible fiscal path, a transition the country would have to make before the next debt repayment that is due mid this year by shoring up government revenue,...

කොටස් වෙළඳපොලට සේවක අර්‍ථසාධක අරමුදල (සේ.අ.අ.) නැවත ඇතුල් වීම පිටුපස ඇති සාවද්‍ය තර්කය

by |13 March 202013 March 2020|Interviews & Articles

බිලියන 23 (30/09/19 වන විට සේ.අ. අරමුදලට කොටස් ආයෝජනවලින් සිදුවු ප්‍රාග්ධන අලාභය) 7.5% (වසර 25 ක කාලයක් සඳහා කොටස් වෙළඳපොලේ සාමාන්‍ය ඵලදායී වාර්ෂික ප්‍රතිලාභ) 11.1% (අවුරුදු 25 ක කාලයක් සඳහා වසරක භාණ්ඩාගාර බිල්පත් වල සාමාන්‍ය ඵලදායී වාර්ෂික ප්‍රතිලාභ) අතීතයේ වංචනික...

Need for prudent ministerial portfolio allocation urged for better public finance management

by |05 March 202005 March 2020|Verité in the News

Taken from DailyMirror As Sri Lanka is gearing up for a parliamentary election, economists are stressing on the need to allocate ministerial portfolios in a more prudent manner so that the public finance management, amongst other areas, does not get...

Sri Lanka’s consumption could have recovered with smaller stimulus

by |04 March 202004 March 2020|Verité in the News

Taken from DailyMirror Successive governments have failed to come up with a citizens’ budget that entails the necessary insights for the public to understand the viability of the proposals made and to break this recurring inefficient cycle, economic think tank...

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