{"id":120263,"date":"2021-11-13T14:12:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T21:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=120263"},"modified":"2021-11-13T14:12:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T21:12:06","slug":"budget-2022-percentage-and-gst-categories-to-be-decided-by-fm-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/11\/13\/budget-2022-percentage-and-gst-categories-to-be-decided-by-fm-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2022 &#8211; Percentage and GST categories to be decided by FM (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru New<\/em><\/span>s<\/h2>\n\n\n<p> The Governor of the Central Bank Ajith Nivard Cabraal stated that he hopes to restructure loans in a manner that is beneficial to the country. He was addressing a discussion on the budget organized by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka held through video technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d85\u0dba\u0dc0\u0dd0\u0dba \u0db6\u0daf\u0dd4 \u0d9a\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dcf\u0dad\u0dca\u0db8\u0d9a \u0dc0\u0dd9\u0db1 \u0dc4\u0dd0\u0da7\u0dd2 - \u0db8\u0dad\u0dca\u0db4\u0dd0\u0db1\u0dca \u0db8\u0dd2\u0dbd\u0dad\u0dca \u0d89\u0dc4\u0dc5\u0da7 - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jlmWBjzrDyY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the proposals made by the Minister of Finance Basil Rajapaksa yesterday, have been implemented since yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first was the cigarette and excise tax levy proposal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly the price of a cigarette was increased by 5 rupees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was also proposed to increase excise duty with immediate effect and the expected revenue from this would be Rs. 25 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister of Finance has included a number of tax proposals in the 2022 budget to increase government revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the main proposals is the GST or tax on goods and services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposal introduced in the last budget is due to be implemented from next January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the budget proposal does not clearly state the percentage of this tax or the relevant goods and services subject to this tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Minister of Finance stated that benefits cannot be given to the public service this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News The Governor of the Central Bank Ajith Nivard Cabraal stated that he hopes to restructure loans in a manner that is beneficial to the country. He was addressing a discussion on the budget organized by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka held through video technology. Some of the proposals made by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}