Interesting facts ......
514,000 pensioners payment 111b
1.29 million govt employees payment 430b
Duty tax concessions to govt employees 25b
And provincial council has more civil service than central government 299,000 vs 329000
Free education costs more than free healthcare 68b vs 53b.
CTC pays enough tax to fund one
DIST, BREW and others pay enough tax to fund the other
Samurdhi relief helps more than 1m households. The cost is only 10b
Subsidies for Fertiliser - 36b
Subsidies for everything else 12b
School books 2b
School uniforms 2b
Thriposha programme 2b
Interest on local loans 317b
Interest on foreign loans 90b
Interest cost breakdown:
- Education 28b
- Health 17b
- Civil admin 26b
- Energy and water supply 85b
- Transport and communication 204b
High investments in infrastructure ports, roads and highways. Also high investments in energy production.
Apart from paying your fares certain public institutions need help. This is because the fares you pay are not enough.
Railways : 3.7b
Postal services : 3.3b
Sri Lanka Transport board : 3.9b
Free train and bus transport anyone
Free prescription medicine 16.7b
Fresh milk for pre-school and nutrition programme 2.9b or JKH tax
For chicken fans28 million chicks provided under Divineguma. The cost 163m
Three Acre Farms and Bairaha - this is more than your production
Pension costOnly 240 pensioners get 50,000 a month or more
Doubling the pension to those who get less than 10,000 only costs 25b more.
The number of beneficiaries 238000 pensioners
Income tax 172b
Goods and services 462b
International trade 210b
..... goes to show that higher incomes feed higher domestic consumption/domestic production/GDP and eventually higher tax revenue
Luxury vehicle tax brings in 1.253b
Share transaction levy 1.285b
So double the share transaction levy and remove the luxury vehicle tax