Implementation Of Proposed Value Added Tax Revisions Postponed

The Inland Revenue Department has decided not to implement the proposed Value Added Tax(VAT) Revisions which scheduled to be implemented with effect from today(01) until further notice.Accordingly the applicable VAT rate will remain as 1%  the commissioner general of Inland Revenue Department Kalyani Dissanayake has stated.

Prime Minister Ranil Wikramasinghe has announced at Parliament in last March that the VAT Rate will be increased to 15% from the current rate of 11% with effect from 01st of April.The Prime Minister has also stated the government will impose capital gain tax.

Sri Lanka Navy And Police Narcotic Bureau Had Been Arrested 11 Foreign Nationals Along With 101 Kilo Grammes Of Heroin At Southern Coast

Sri Lanka Navy Personal along with Police Narcotic Bureau Officials had  been today(01) arrested 11 Foreign Nationals including 10 Iranians and 1 Pakistani who were transporting 101 Kilo Grammes Of Heroin through a foreign ship  at  Southern Coast of Sri Lanka .

The haul  of Heroin was smuggled from Pakistan via the Southern Sea and then transported  to Sri Lanka through a fishing trawler according to Sri Lankan Navy. The detained Foreign Ship which transported the haul of  Heroin was owned by the  11 Foreign Nationals  who were arrested during the raid it has been reported.

The arrested Foreign Nationals were identified as involved in the smuggling of heroin to Sri Lanka which had being operated jointly by Sri Lankan,Pakistani and Afghanistani agents .

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Colombo Crimes Division Has Informed The Colombo Court One Kidney Each Of Six Indian Nationals Arrested Recently Were Removed

The Colombo Crimes Division has today(01) informed the Colombo Magistrate Court  that one kidney each of six out of the eight Indian Nationals who were arrested recently at Wellawatta (In Colombo) were removed based on Colombo Chief Judicial Medical Officers medical report.

The eight Indian Nationals were arrested by the Colombo Crimes Division on 04th of March at a guest house in wellawatta on suspicion of involved in alleged Kidney Transplant Racket operated between Sri Lanka and India and for staying in Sri Lanka by violating visa procedures.

The suspected Indian Nationals have been produced before Colombo Magistrate Court this morning and the Court has been informed by the Colombo Crimes Division that more than 286 documents were found in possession of the suspected Indian Nationals and investigations on them are being carried out through Interpol.

The Colombo Additional Magistrate has ordered the suspected to be under detention until 04th of April.

Local Organization On Protecting Consumers Rights Is To Complain UN On Consumer Affairs Authority

The National Campaign for protecting consumers rights has decided to complain United Nations Organization about Sri Lanka's Consumer Affairs Authority regarding  it's failure to protect consumers rights.

Although there is a price control mechanism in the market at present the  consumer affairs authority has not taken any steps to implement it and not even considering the complaints made by consumers the national campaign for protecting consumers rights has stated.

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