{"id":139855,"date":"2024-01-19T17:01:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T00:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=139855"},"modified":"2024-01-19T17:01:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T00:01:49","slug":"property-tax-will-help-sri-lanka-to-take-quantum-leap-to-achieve-imf-targets-peter-breuer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/01\/19\/property-tax-will-help-sri-lanka-to-take-quantum-leap-to-achieve-imf-targets-peter-breuer\/","title":{"rendered":"Property tax will help Sri Lanka to take quantum leap to achieve IMF targets \u2013 Peter Breuer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Although Sri Lanka\u2019s macro economy is gradually stabilizing, the country\u2019s economic recovery process is still in the \u2018infancy level\u2019 and has yet to reach the broader population, says Peter Breuer, the Senior Mission Chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Breuer has also expressed that property tax will help Sri Lanka to take the quantum leap to achieve the IMF programme\u2019s goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A group of officials from the IMF arrived in Sri Lanka on 11 January to engage in discussions for a period of one week, while studying the process of economic reforms carried out within the country, following the IMF\u2019s approval of the first review under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement for Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a discussion with President Ranil Wickremesinghe, the IMF delegation congratulated the country on completing the first review under its program and highlighted the positive outset of the program, recognizing the challenging reforms undertaken by Sri Lanka and their significant impact on the domestic population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Although Sri Lanka\u2019s macro economy is gradually stabilizing, the country\u2019s economic recovery process is still in the \u2018infancy level\u2019 and has yet to reach the broader population, says Peter Breuer, the Senior Mission Chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to Sri Lanka. Mr. Breuer has also expressed that property tax will help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imf-bailout-package"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139855","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=139855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}