{"id":121128,"date":"2021-12-12T16:30:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T23:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=121128"},"modified":"2021-12-12T16:30:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T23:30:49","slug":"sri-lankas-registered-taxpayers-decreased-by-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/12\/12\/sri-lankas-registered-taxpayers-decreased-by-33\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s registered taxpayers decreased by 33%"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, Dec 12 (News 1st) \u2013&nbsp;Sri Lanka\u2019s number of registered tax payers has dropped by 33.5% between 2019 and 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The platform, publicfinance.lk said Sri Lanka\u2019s number of tax payers that stood at 1.7 million in 2019 had dropped to 1.1 million in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The platform further stated that the decline is most probably due to major changes in tax policy introduced in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes the increase in thresholds for Value Added Tax (VAT) and the abolition of Pay As You Earn (PAYE) taxes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Dec 12 (News 1st) \u2013&nbsp;Sri Lanka\u2019s number of registered tax payers has dropped by 33.5% between 2019 and 2020. The platform, publicfinance.lk said Sri Lanka\u2019s number of tax payers that stood at 1.7 million in 2019 had dropped to 1.1 million in 2020. The platform further stated that the decline is most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121128","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=121128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}