{"id":49110,"date":"2015-11-05T08:05:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T14:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=49110"},"modified":"2015-11-04T05:14:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T12:14:23","slug":"austerity-measures-with-state-employee-and-pensioner-pay-cuts-and-tax-increase-in-the-next-budget-%e0%b6%86%e0%b6%af%e0%b7%8f%e0%b6%ba%e0%b6%b8%e0%b7%8a-%e0%b6%85%e0%b6%a9%e0%b7%94%e0%b6%ba%e0%b7%92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/11\/05\/austerity-measures-with-state-employee-and-pensioner-pay-cuts-and-tax-increase-in-the-next-budget-%e0%b6%86%e0%b6%af%e0%b7%8f%e0%b6%ba%e0%b6%b8%e0%b7%8a-%e0%b6%85%e0%b6%a9%e0%b7%94%e0%b6%ba%e0%b7%92\/","title":{"rendered":"Austerity measures with state employees and pensioners pay cuts and tax increase in the next budget \u0d86\u0daf\u0dcf\u0dba\u0db8\u0dca \u0d85\u0da9\u0dd4\u0dba\u0dd2.. \u0dbb\u0dcf\u0da2\u0dca\u200d\u0dba \u0dc3\u0dda\u0dc0\u0d9a\u0dba\u0db1\u0dca\u0d9c\u0dda \u0db4\u0da9\u0dd2 \u0d85\u0da9\u0dd4 \u0d9a\u0dbb\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1 \u0dc0\u0dd9\u0dba\u0dd2.. \u0dc0\u0dd2\u0dc1\u200d\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dcf\u0db8 \u0dc0\u0dd0\u0da7\u0dd4\u0db4\u0dca \u0d9a\u0db4\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1\u0dad\u0dca \u0dc0\u0dd9\u0dba\u0dd2.- Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Yahapalanaya News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Dashing the hopes of voters who voted Yahapalana government for a better living condition with the Rs10000 salary hike introduced before the last general elections, most of the gains, now, \u00a0will be wiped out overnight with the introduction of new economic austerity measures to be introduced in the next budget.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a meeting in Colombo Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake said that the government may have to take austerity measures to reduce the budget deficits due to declining government tax revenue and reduced income.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Austerity<\/strong>\u00a0policies may include state employees and pensioners pay cut, spending cuts, tax increases, or a mixture of all.<\/p>\n<p>He further added, however next year\u2019s the government tax revenue will be expected over Rs 2,000 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u0d89\u0daf\u0dd2\u0dbb\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dda\u0daf\u0dd3 \u0dbb\u0dcf\u0da2\u0dca\u200d\u0dba \u0dc3\u0dda\u0dc0\u0d9a \u0dc0\u0dd0\u0da7\u0dd4\u0db4\u0dca \u0dc4\u0dcf \u0dc0\u0dd2\u0dc1\u200d\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dcf\u0db8\u0dd2\u0d9a\u0dba\u0db1\u0dca\u0d9c\u0dda \u0dc0\u0dd0\u0da7\u0dd4\u0db4\u0dca \u0d9a\u0db4\u0dca\u0db4\u0dcf\u0daf\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0d9a\u0dca \u0dc0\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0daf \u0d9a\u0dd2\u0dbb\u0dd3\u0db8\u0da7 \u0dc3\u0dd2\u0daf\u0dd4 \u0dc0\u0dd2\u0dba \u0dc4\u0dd0\u0dad\u0dd2 \u0db6\u0dc0 \u0db8\u0dd4\u0daf\u0dbd\u0dca \u0d87\u0db8\u0dad\u0dd2 \u0dbb\u0dc0\u0dd2 \u0d9a\u0dbb\u0dd4\u0dab\u0dcf\u0db1\u0dcf\u0dba\u0d9a \u0db8\u0dc4\u0dad\u0dcf \u0db4\u0dc0\u0dc3\u0dba\u0dd2.<\/p>\n<p>\u0d9a\u0ddc\u0dc5\u0db9\u0daf\u0dd3 \u0db4\u0dd0\u0dc0\u0dad\u0dd2 \u0d8b\u0dad\u0dca\u0dc3\u0dc0 \u0dc3\u0db7\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0d9a\u0dca \u0d85\u0db8\u0dad\u0db8\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dca \u0d94\u0dc4\u0dd4 \u0d9a\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dcf \u0dc3\u0dd2\u0da7\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dda \u0dbb\u0da2\u0dba\u0dda \u0db6\u0daf\u0dd4 \u0d86\u0daf\u0dcf\u0dba\u0db8 \u0db4\u0dc4\u0dc5 \u0dc0\u0dd0\u0da7\u0dd3\u0db8 \u0db1\u0dd2\u0dc3\u0dcf \u0db8\u0dd9\u0db8 \u0dad\u0dad\u0dca\u0dc0\u0dba \u0d8b\u0daf\u0dcf \u0dc0\u0dd3 \u0d87\u0dad\u0dd2 \u0db6\u0dc0\u0dba\u0dd2.<\/p>\n<p>\u0d9a\u0dd9\u0dc3\u0dda \u0dc0\u0dd9\u0dad\u0dad\u0dca \u0dbd\u0db6\u0db1 \u0dc0\u0dc3\u0dbb\u0dda\u0daf\u0dd3 \u0dbb\u0da2\u0dba\u0dda \u0d85\u0db4\u0dda\u0d9a\u0dca\u200d\u0dc2\u0dd2\u0dad \u0db6\u0daf\u0dd4 \u0d86\u0daf\u0dcf\u0dba\u0db8 \u0dbb\u0dd4\u0db4\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dbd\u0dca \u0db6\u0dd2\u0dbd\u0dd2\u0dba\u0db1 2000\u0d9a\u0dca \u0dba\u0dba\u0dd2\u0daf \u0d94\u0dc4\u0dd4 \u0d9a\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dcf \u0dc3\u0dd2\u0da7\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dda\u0dba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahapalanaya News Dashing the hopes of voters who voted Yahapalana government for a better living condition with the Rs10000 salary hike introduced before the last general elections, most of the gains, now, \u00a0will be wiped out overnight with the introduction of new economic austerity measures to be introduced in the next budget. Addressing a meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49110","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=49110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}