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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sri_lion" data-source="post: 2460149" data-attributes="member: 4103">Ok.. lets get back to this particular topic.. the issue and its practicality!!Lets looks at the items that has been taxed![ATTACH]7127[/ATTACH]I've seen most of the people in this thread saying that how hard they earn money and stuff like that.. which is true!! Agreed!!But lets break this down a bit more!!According to the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment statisticsAs you can see <a href="http://www.slbfe.lk/feb/statistics/statis3.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>by 2006 there were 203841 people working abroad.. and lets take a look at those items again.. how many of us can actually afford those items? I mean.. these are sort of luxury items for an average Sri Lankan still... According to the Bureau of Foreign Employment all foreign workers are categorized into 6 areas1. Professional2. Middle Level3. Clerical and Related4. Skilled5. Unskilled6. HousemaidOk.. lets say for the sake of argument that people can afford these items.. looking at that category I would say these can afford by Professional or Middle level jobs.. I dont see a possibility of buying these items by people any lower in the order than that... (maybe very rarely)So lets add up according to the sources (2006)Professional + Middle Level = 1619+6655 = 8284 which is only about 4% of the total amount of Sri Lankans working abroad can afford these!!! So the rest of 96% are not effected!!Lets further break it down to Middle East countries since lot of people talked about middle east countries as well..UAE + Kuwait + Saudi + Qatar + Lebanon = 6307 (Professional + Middle Level)The percentage that probably can afford these items would be 3.7% ~So give it another thought.. maybe its not as bad as it may seem as some people want to make a big drama out of it!!</blockquote>

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