SLFP MPs On The Fence Over VAT Bill.
Posted on August 7th, 2016

By Noor Nizam. Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLFP Stalwart and Convener – “The Muslim Voice”, August 6th., 2016.

All MP’s including Muslim and Tamil MP’s should oppose the VAT bill in parliament. Instead of enforcing the VAT, the government must bring in legislations to collect the funds needed by the government by implementing the following:

1) Ban/withdraw the privilege of granting DUTY FREE imports of motor vehicles to:

All parliamentarians, Provincial council members, Pradeshiya Chairman’s, Government Doctors, Professionals, Government Officials, Heads of Public Institutions, Secretaries of Ministries and politically appointed Government Consultants. In all, all issues of duty free import of vehicles should be banned. If such imports of vehicles are necessary by the above category, then the government should the government should ask them to pay the full customs duty and any other taxes applied. This will save the government millions of rupees/hundreds of thousands o dollars.

2) The subsidized meals provided to parliamentarians and the parliamentary staff should be stopped immediately.Market rates/prices should be charged for these services. This will save the government hundreds of thousands of rupees.

3) The free allocation of petrol how given to the MP’s and Ministers and government officials has to be slashed by 50%. This will put a stop to galavanting drives and discipline the use of such resources for the benefit of the nation. This will save the government hundreds of thousands of rupees/dollars.

4) The allocation of use of “Free Cellphones has to be limited” and curtailed by at least 50%. This will discipline government officials and parliamentarians from misusing this privilege to official talk only. This will save the government hundreds of thousands of rupees.

5) Government residents or official bungalows granted/issued to politicians should be withdrawn immediately and as an alternate, all government officials and parliamentarians, ministers and government servants should me made to pay the market rent price if they are to continue in such residences/houses, including the water bills, electricity bills etc.

If these remedies are applied to the economical management of the expenditure of government funds/fiscal revenue, then the government will save MILLIONS of RUPEES every month/year which could be USED to SUPPLEMENT the proposed income expected by the application of VAT on the masses/people and free them from the economical burden.THUS, THERE WILL BE NO USE OF FORCING A VALUE ADDED TAXATION on the poor masses. The above mains issues are the grumbling and grievances of the ordinary citizen/voter and the main opposition to the VAT, raising the question – why all these facilities and privileges to such a section of the society and why should we be TAXED to pay them for such FANCIES in life.

Maithripala Sirisena should show leadership in bringing these REFORMS, which the UNP and the Ministry of Finance of the Hon. Ranil Wickremasinghe camp of the Yahapalana government will NOT like.

One Response to “SLFP MPs On The Fence Over VAT Bill.”

  1. Sarath W Says:

    It make sense to implement these reforms as suggested because the members of parliament should not impose this additional taxes on struggling masses and enjoy all those perks. Also as I read some where before instead giving members incentives to attend the parliament, the government should penalise the members for not attending the sessions and take measures to reduce the expenditure of parliament sessions.

    But I disagree with the last paragraph. My3 cannot show leadership. He is not a leader, he is a follower and dance to the tunes played by Ranil and Chandrika, the Modi who works for our enemy, INDIA.

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

 

 


Copyright © 2024 LankaWeb.com. All Rights Reserved. Powered by Wordpress