More taxes soon
Several more taxes are to be introduced in order to boost state revenue, said government sources.
Several more taxes are to be introduced in order to boost state revenue, said government sources.
President Ranil Wickrmesinghe and public security minister Tiran Alles meet this afternoon (09) to finalize a decision on the post of police chief that remains vacant for 14 days now, said a spokesman for the Presidential Secretariat.
The Tax Appeals Commission will be annulled due to an inefficient tax appealing process, said justice minister Wijayadasa Rajapakshe.
The United People’s Party (UPP) says no citizen has the right to take the law into own hands and enforce punishment to any offender outside the established institutions.
The government has planned a proposal to vest the MPs of the respective areas with the duties and responsibilities of the provincial ministries in order to reactivate the functions of the provincial councils (PCs) that remain inactive since 2017, ‘Deshaya’ newspaper reports.
Police have been ordered to arrest the persons who stripped a monk and two women and beat them with clubs at a temple at Rassapana in Nawagamuwa.
The 88th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and religious leader of the Tibetan people, who is respected by the whole world, a Buddhist monk with a heart filled with kindness, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was held in the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka on July 06.
The post of police chief remains vacant from June 25, when C.D. Wickramaratne completed his three-month service extension.
An extremist political party is using the issue of religious places in the north to “do things that should not happen in a country”, said state defence minister Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon.
A court in Mannar has called for an investigation report into what is claimed to be the country’s biggest mass grave found five years ago.