{"id":145017,"date":"2024-10-17T15:14:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T22:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=145017"},"modified":"2024-10-17T15:14:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T22:14:39","slug":"govt-increases-tax-on-several-key-imported-food-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/10\/17\/govt-increases-tax-on-several-key-imported-food-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt. increases tax on several key imported food items"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The government has announced an increase in taxes on certain imported goods, effective from October 14 to December 31, 2024.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This move comes under the directive of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who also serves as the Minister of Finance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the new regulations, a special merchandise tax will apply to several key imports. Whole and flaked Mysore lentils, as well as yellow lentils, will now incur a tax of 25 cents per kilogram.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, a special commodity levy of Rs. 302 per kilogram has been imposed on maldive fish and its substitutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fresh or frozen fish, excluding de-boned fish and other processed fish, will subject to a tax of 10% or Rs. 400 per kilogram, whichever is higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The government has announced an increase in taxes on certain imported goods, effective from October 14 to December 31, 2024.&nbsp; This move comes under the directive of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who also serves as the Minister of Finance. Under the new regulations, a special merchandise tax will apply to several key imports. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145017","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=145017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}