Sanjiva Weerawarana
5 hrs
Harsha de Silva this is just an utter lie dude. You know it.
If you really want to put even a small dent in reducing our imports, how about the govt putting an immediate (and at least temporary) ban on:
- issuing new car permits
- bringing in any vehicle that hasn't already been ordered with a permit (basically make all permits null and void immediately)
That will reduce the import bill.
Why? Because NO RICH PEOPLE pay the proper taxes to bring in luxury vehicles - they ALL buy permits from the likes of you who grant themselves permits with impunity (and grant to others to keep everyone under your dirty thumbs).
I've repeatedly called dealers and asked about buying expensive cars (e.g. a Porche SUV) so I can find out about permits and they ALL say they can get whatever permit and save me Rs. 5-10 million on the non-permit price. They do it openly.
I called (a month ago) recently about a Honda CRV and even the agent (Stafford Motors) said the same thing. That needs a Doctors permit and its available "freely" per multiple importers for Rs. 2.35M. Net result: I save Rs. 1M, the bloody doctor gets Rs. 2.35M, public loses Rs. 3.35M, dealer makes money and EVERYONE IS HAPPY, *except* for the country.
5 years ago I bought my parents a car. They had never had a brand new car (actually not true; my father had bought a Ford something in the late 50s as a young army officer for Rs. 3000 [yes that's not a mistake]) and I wanted to buy them one. I bought them a Mercedes and *wanted* them to get the experience of a dealer purchase - you know where you actually buy it from the people who make it. We went to DIMO, saw a black Mercedes C200 and they liked it so I gave Rs. 10.8M and bought it. I was out of the country for about 3 weeks after that and damned DIMO took like 6 weeks to get the thing registered and so they can use it.
They're now selling the car and looked the papers - apparently the *agent* had brought the car under someone else's permit (it said some guy who's title was an Army Engineer .. I know many engineers in the Army and they don't get permits!) and then sold the car to my parents WITHOUT telling us that it was a car brought under a permit. DIMO *lied* to me and my parents - and I like a fool trusted that if you walk into the car dealer, the legal agent of the brand, and you buy a car at the price they tell you that then its a car where you are the owner of the car directly from the manufacturer. Oh and that's why it took them damned long to get it on the road.
A few months ago I called a number in the Sunday HitAd which said permits wanted. I pretended to be an agent for an MP. The guy asked provincial or parliament. I said parliament and then guy says "oh for that permit we'll give you Rs 12m cash". I said ok good and then he wanted more info like which MP etc. - I politely said "amathi thuma mata kiwwa eh wisthara danata denna epa kiyala" (MP told me not to share that info yet) and hung up. My kids (who were listening in because I called while driving and on speaker) were like you're crazy.
*THAT* is the reality of the system you idiots have set up. I know you Harsha and I feel bad to call you an idiot but fucking hell for you to go out and say with a straight face that rich people should stop importing cars is a damned joke!!!!!
If you want to fix the system look in the mirror and STOP the car permit nonsense. RICH ain't paying the taxes idiots: only the poor are because there are no permits to bring in a 3-wheeler or a Tata Nano (whatever its future) or a Suzuki tiny thingie.
Oh and then there's the tax free helicopters you idiots are allowing. Remember that? I called about that too once - and even got a quote for USD 1.5M to get a tax free helicopter. What's the reason for that gimmick - your friends needed to bring a helicopter so you said everyone can bring one for themselves?? Of course, if you can't afford bread, eat cake eh?



Sanjiva Weerawarana
5 hrs
Harsha de Silva this is just an utter lie dude. You know it.
If you really want to put even a small dent in reducing our imports, how about the govt putting an immediate (and at least temporary) ban on:
- issuing new car permits
- bringing in any vehicle that hasn't already been ordered with a permit (basically make all permits null and void immediately)
That will reduce the import bill.
Why? Because NO RICH PEOPLE pay the proper taxes to bring in luxury vehicles - they ALL buy permits from the likes of you who grant themselves permits with impunity (and grant to others to keep everyone under your dirty thumbs).
I've repeatedly called dealers and asked about buying expensive cars (e.g. a Porche SUV) so I can find out about permits and they ALL say they can get whatever permit and save me Rs. 5-10 million on the non-permit price. They do it openly.
I called (a month ago) recently about a Honda CRV and even the agent (Stafford Motors) said the same thing. That needs a Doctors permit and its available "freely" per multiple importers for Rs. 2.35M. Net result: I save Rs. 1M, the bloody doctor gets Rs. 2.35M, public loses Rs. 3.35M, dealer makes money and EVERYONE IS HAPPY, *except* for the country.
5 years ago I bought my parents a car. They had never had a brand new car (actually not true; my father had bought a Ford something in the late 50s as a young army officer for Rs. 3000 [yes that's not a mistake]) and I wanted to buy them one. I bought them a Mercedes and *wanted* them to get the experience of a dealer purchase - you know where you actually buy it from the people who make it. We went to DIMO, saw a black Mercedes C200 and they liked it so I gave Rs. 10.8M and bought it. I was out of the country for about 3 weeks after that and damned DIMO took like 6 weeks to get the thing registered and so they can use it.
They're now selling the car and looked the papers - apparently the *agent* had brought the car under someone else's permit (it said some guy who's title was an Army Engineer .. I know many engineers in the Army and they don't get permits!) and then sold the car to my parents WITHOUT telling us that it was a car brought under a permit. DIMO *lied* to me and my parents - and I like a fool trusted that if you walk into the car dealer, the legal agent of the brand, and you buy a car at the price they tell you that then its a car where you are the owner of the car directly from the manufacturer. Oh and that's why it took them damned long to get it on the road.
A few months ago I called a number in the Sunday HitAd which said permits wanted. I pretended to be an agent for an MP. The guy asked provincial or parliament. I said parliament and then guy says "oh for that permit we'll give you Rs 12m cash". I said ok good and then he wanted more info like which MP etc. - I politely said "amathi thuma mata kiwwa eh wisthara danata denna epa kiyala" (MP told me not to share that info yet) and hung up. My kids (who were listening in because I called while driving and on speaker) were like you're crazy.
*THAT* is the reality of the system you idiots have set up. I know you Harsha and I feel bad to call you an idiot but fucking hell for you to go out and say with a straight face that rich people should stop importing cars is a damned joke!!!!!
If you want to fix the system look in the mirror and STOP the car permit nonsense. RICH ain't paying the taxes idiots: only the poor are because there are no permits to bring in a 3-wheeler or a Tata Nano (whatever its future) or a Suzuki tiny thingie.
Oh and then there's the tax free helicopters you idiots are allowing. Remember that? I called about that too once - and even got a quote for USD 1.5M to get a tax free helicopter. What's the reason for that gimmick - your friends needed to bring a helicopter so you said everyone can bring one for themselves?? Of course, if you can't afford bread, eat cake eh?

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දිනෙන් දිනම ඩොලරය හමුවේ අවප්රමාණය වන ශ්රී ලංකා රුපියල රැක ගැනීම සඳහා සයාහ දෙන ලෙස රාජ්ය ඇමැති හර්ෂ ද සිල්වා මහතා ජනතාවගෙන් ඉල්ලීමක් කර ඇත.
ඔහු ඉල්ලා සිටින්නේ මිලදී ගැනීමට බලාපොරොත්තුවෙන් සිටින සුඛෝපභෝගී මෝටර් රථය මිලදී ගැනීම රට වෙනුවෙන් කල් දමන ලෙසයි.
එමෙන්ම යොදාගෙන ඇති ඇලෙස්කා විදේශ විනෝද සංචාරයන්ද මාස දෙකකටවත් කල් දමන්නැයි ඔහු ඉල්ලයි.
රුපියල් රැක ගැනීම සඳහා රජයට සහයෝගය දෙන ලෙස ඔහු ඉල්ලා සිටියි.
කෙසේ වෙතත් රාජ්ය අමාත්යවරයා මීට ටික දිනකට පෙර කියා සිටියේ රුපියල අවප්රමාණය වීම රජයට විශාල වශයෙන් අවාසියක් නොවන බවයි.

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හරිනම් මෙහෙම වෙලා මදි ඩොලර් එක 200 විතර එක දවසින් ගියා නම් තව හොදයි තදේටම වෙනස උදාවෙනව එහෙනම්..

ආයෙත් අහල ෆුල් හැපීමට නම්හරිනම් මෙහෙම වෙලා මදි ඩොලර් එක 200 විතර එක දවසින් ගියා නම් තව හොදයි තදේටම වෙනස උදාවෙනව එහෙනම්..
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තෝ වගේ දේශද්රෝහියෙක්. තොට රට බල්ලට ගියත් කමක් නෑ උඹ කැමති නැති පක්ශෙ ඡන්ද කැඩෙනවනං ඒ ඇති. උඹේ මව් රට ලංකාව නෙමේද ?
මේවා මේ විදිහට වෙනවා කියලා 2015 ඉඳන් කිව්වේ. උඹලා පොඩි කාර් ලණුව කෑවා.
තෝ වගේ දේශද්රෝහියෙක්. තොට රට බල්ලට ගියත් කමක් නෑ උඹ කැමති නැති පක්ශෙ ඡන්ද කැඩෙනවනං ඒ ඇති. උඹේ මව් රට ලංකාව නෙමේද ?
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