{"id":124971,"date":"2022-05-04T11:47:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T18:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=124971"},"modified":"2022-05-04T11:47:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T18:47:41","slug":"private-sector-demanded-tax-cut-soon-after-govt-came-to-power-ranil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/05\/04\/private-sector-demanded-tax-cut-soon-after-govt-came-to-power-ranil\/","title":{"rendered":"Private sector demanded tax cut soon after govt. came to power: Ranil"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>It was the private sector that demanded a tax cut soon after the present government came into power, Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament today.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;No politicaian in the government wanted a tax cut, as it was the private sector that wanted it,&#8221; he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former Premier also found fault with the govenment officials and requested the minister of finance to work on his own and make his own statements in the House. &#8220;I also propose that all financial advisory committees as it is the Parliament which has power over finances,&#8221; he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also Mr. Wickremesinghe requested that Srilankan airlines should be told to halt leasing of 21 new aircraft till the House gives its approval for it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also praised the Minister of Finance Ali Sabry saying he has been brave enough to undertake a daunting task of reviving the country&#8217;s economy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror It was the private sector that demanded a tax cut soon after the present government came into power, Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament today.&nbsp; &#8220;No politicaian in the government wanted a tax cut, as it was the private sector that wanted it,&#8221; he said.&nbsp; The former Premier also found [&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-124971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124971","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=124971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}