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Government faces headwinds in Parliament

By Yohan Perera in Daily Mirror, Dec 11, 2023Colombo, Dec 11 (Daily Mirror) – The government faced headwinds in Parliament yesterday in its attempt to boost revenue by enacting a piece of legislation to reduce the VAT-exempted list from 138 categories of items to 97, a move that will have a two percent inflationary effect. The House was convened yesterday for a special session despite it being a Sunday, given the urgency to pass the…