{"id":128445,"date":"2022-09-10T14:50:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=128445"},"modified":"2022-09-10T14:50:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:50:27","slug":"major-tea-export-company-in-sl-has-been-evading-taxes-govt-mp-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/09\/10\/major-tea-export-company-in-sl-has-been-evading-taxes-govt-mp-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Major tea export company in SL has been evading taxes: Govt. MP reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>A major tea export company in Sri Lanka has been evading taxes worth US dollars 300 million every year, a government MP told Parliament yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage who made this disclosure in Parliament added that none of the companies who run supermarket chains does not pay a single cent as taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There is also a popular clothing store which has 48 outlets islandwide that also does not pay a single cent and a major apparel company which earns Rs 700 million annually but evades paying taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coming up with another staggering disclosure, he said a certain senior officer who earns Rs 1.4 million in a state bank and his taxes are paid by the bank itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A total amount or 3 billion could be earned as taxes if the Inland Revenue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Department is properly regulated,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, he proposed opening up fresh tax files for all 225 MPs so that those who evade paying taxes could be found out.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>(Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror A major tea export company in Sri Lanka has been evading taxes worth US dollars 300 million every year, a government MP told Parliament yesterday. MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage who made this disclosure in Parliament added that none of the companies who run supermarket chains does not pay a single cent as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption-and-bribery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128445","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=128445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}