report in The Island, Nov 9,2023Opposition MP Patali Champika Ranawaka on Tuesday claimed in Parliament that it was the Committee on Ways and Means that had paved the way for the collection of a part of the Rs 6,721 million to be collected from five liquor manufacturing companies which have defaulted on their taxes. Ranawaka said it was the Ways and Means Committee which recommended that bottles of liquor with counterfeit stickers should be confiscated.…
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report in The Island, Mar 20, 2023The Excise Department says its revenue for the first two months of this year has dropped by 12.2 percent, compared to the income it received during the first two months last year. Excise Commissioner General Saman Jayasinghe said that during the first two months of the year 2022, his department had received Rs 28.6 billion as rupee revenue. This year, its revenue had come down to Rs 25.1 billion,…