IMF asked to tax all Sri Lankans with above 41,667 rupee monthly income – sources

[kevin_levin]

මේව මොනවද එතකොට
https://hutch.lk/tax/

 

[Sen-lu]

අම්මෝ ඒ දවස් වල. IMF කියනකොට හිතුවේ අපිව බේරගන්න ඉන්න එකම විසදුම කියලා.

These Tax reforms are necessary.There is no way around it.

 

[EON]

can't say IMF's suggestion was bad without knowing the percentages & tiers they suggested.

exactly... we still don't know the percentages they suggested...

 

[anjwj]

මම නම් කියන්නේ සෑම මට්ටමකම ආදායම් උත්පාදනය කරන අයගෙන් අඩුම රුපියල් සීයක් වත් ඉඳලා බදු අය කර ගන්ඩ ඕනේ. එතකොට මිනිස්සුන්ට තේරෙනවා දේශපාලඥයන් ාජ්‍ය නිලධාරින් සුපිරි වාහන තියාගෙන ගන්නා ආතල් තමන්ගෙම බදු සල්ලි වලින් නේද කියලා.

 

[chinthi123]

If they had that kind of agreement they should present the details of the agreement. Like the inorganic fertilizer ban before, you cannot make abrupt stupid decisions like this without proper consultations and discussions. Anyway I do not trust this statement anyway. Polticians are pathological liars

 

[KadawathaKolla]

If they had that kind of agreement they should present the details of the agreement. Like the inorganic fertilizer ban before, you cannot make abrupt stupid decisions like this without proper consultations and discussions. Anyway I do not trust this statement anyway. Polticians are pathological liars

they will continue this. never stop taking stupid decisions to solve or hide the problem temporary.. they did that for decades and will continue unless we chase them all

 

[ruchira55]

2015දි රනිල් ධනපති පන්තියට පුකෙන් යන්න ටැක්ස් ගහලා තොපෙන් පොඩි ගානක් ගන්නකොටනෙ තොපිලට කාලා බීලා තෙල වැඩි වෙලා බස්ස ගන්න බැරුව නැටුවෙ. දැන් ඔන්න රනිල් ධනපතියොන්ගෙන් ටිකකුයි තොපිලගෙන් ගොඩකුයි ගන්නවා. අඩු කුලේ බල්ලො ටික මීක් නැතුව හිටපල්ල

 

[Edward Kenway]

Good

හැම එකාටම කීය කීය හරි tax ගහන්නම ඕනේ

 

[BINGU_PUTHA]

Anyone knows the current PAYE tax table ? Different sources have different values.

 

[Mr.Thor]

good, tax calcukate krna bari ungenuth ganna vidiyak hoyaganna one

 

[Edward Kenway]

Anyone knows the current PAYE tax table ? Different sources have different values.

ඇයි පකය වගේ ඊයේ ගණන් හදල පුක දෙන්න ආව නේද කැනඩා බයියෝ? දැන් ද tax ගණන් හොයන්නේ?

 

[priyade]

ECONOMYNEXT – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) asked the cash strapped Sri Lankan government to impose taxes on all who receive monthly income of above 41,667 rupees as a prior condition for the $2.9 billion deal, two sources close to the negotiation said.


President Ranil Wickremesinghe government, however, imposed Pay As You Earn (PAYE) tax on all who earn an income above 100,000 rupees monthly. The move has triggered strong protest among high earning public servants who have demanded to reduce the taxes.


“During the discussions, the IMF asked to tax all income above 500,000 rupees. This means a person who earns above 41,667 rupee a month will have to pay PAYE tax. But the government set it for 100,000 rupees,” one source who has direct knowledge on the IMF discussion told EconomyNext.


Another source who has knowledge on the IMF discussions confirmed the global lender’s request.



The IMF was immediately not available for comment.


Sri Lanka’s unprecedented economic crisis has forced its government to impose high PAYE and personal income taxes from 6 percent to 36 percent depending on their income.


A person who paid a tax of 9,000 rupees on a 400,000 rupee monthly income will now have to pay 70,500 rupees as income tax, the latest data showed.


The upward tax revision and removal of all exemptions have angered high income earners in both the private and public sector. Successive Sri Lankan governments adapted a soft approach on taxing public servants due to political reasons.


However, the economic crisis has forced the current government to raise taxes though the measures are hard to swallow, government officials have said. (Colombo/Jan25/2023)

- https://economynext.com/imf-asked-t...ve-41667-rupee-monthly-income-sources-110237/

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