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    • Anura Priyadharshana Yapa: mobile phone taxes 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 1/9/2019)
      PARTLY TRUE: When a mobile phone user in our country pays Rs. 5,000 [as the mobile phone bill], Rs. 1,600 of it goes towards paying taxes. - ANura Priyadharshana Yapa, 26 October 2018, Divaina

    • Anuradha Jayaratne: Prison population 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 9/21/2023)
      TRUE: As of today, the total number of inmates in prisons are 28,468. […] the number of drug-related offenders has increased rapidly. As per today 50.3% of the total inmates are people who were imprisoned for drug related ...

    • Asela Gunawardana: Community Transmission 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 3/12/2021)
      FALSE: “If it is to reach the community transmission level, the positive rate would have drastically spiraled parallel to the number of PCR tests. At present, Sri Lanka is not experiencing such a situation”. - Asela ...

    • Ashok Abeysinghe: Foreign Departures 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 2024-03-14)
      PARTLY TRUE: 500 individuals from our country go abroad on a daily basis. In the recent past, between 180,000 and 200,000 individuals per month have gone abroad. The reason why they go abroad is because it’s difficult to ...

    • Ashok Abeysinghe: Health budget allocations 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 10/17/2019)
      TRUE: In 2010, LKR 53.1 billion was allocated for free healthcare; in 2015, we allocated LKR 139.5 billion. In 2016, [it was] LKR 174 billion. In 2019, an amount of LKR 194.5 billion were allocated. This means that 10% of ...

    • Ashok Abeysinghe: Organic agriculture statistics 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 11/19/2021)
      TRUE: There are only 16 countries in the world that have at least moved towards 10% organic agriculture. No Asian countries are among those 16. - Ashok Abeysinghe, Official Facebook page of Samagi Jana Balawegaya, 26 October 2021

    • Ashok Abeysinghe: Passenger transport 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 8/7/2019)
      TRUE: As of now, the number of passengers travelling by train is about 400,000… In [bus] passenger transport, the private sector does about 75%, and SLTB buses do 25%. - Ashok Abeysinghe, Divaina, June 24

    • Bandula Gunawardana: Active Liability Management Act 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 9/26/2019)
      FALSE: This government passed an act to obtain annual loans from foreigners without limitations. This act was passed by misleadingly naming it the Active Liability Management Act. According to this, they can obtain any ...

    • Bandula Gunawardana: Bond Commission report 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 11/14/2018)
      BLATANTLY FALSE: In early February 2018, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Jaffna District MP and party spokesman M.A. Sumanthiran sabotaged an adjournment debate on the treasury bond scam report. The newspaper went on to say ...

    • Bandula Gunawardana: Central Bank Liability 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 6/25/2020)
      TRUE: When money is deposited in a financial institution, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka is only responsible for up to LKR 600,000. - Bandula Gunawardana, Department of Government Information Facebook Page, 4 June 2020

    • Bandula Gunawardana: Debt 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 1/20/2022)
      FALSE: The debt stood at 2 trillion when Mahinda Rajapaksa took over the country. It stood at 7 trillion at the time he handed over the country. The debt only rose by 5 trillion in [those] 10 years. [But] The debt stood ...

    • Bandula Gunawardana: Sathosa Losses 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 4/8/2021)
      PARTLY TRUE: [Sathosa] was an institution that did not incur losses before 2015. Sathosa has lost 20 billion rupees during the last five years (2015 – 2019). - Bandula Gunawardana, Daily News, 10 March 2021

    • Bandula Gunawardana: Singapore FTA 

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      FactCheck       (factchecklka - Facebook, 11/19/2018)
      BLATANTLY FALSE: As a result of the gazette notification 2069/2, nearly 4000 products can be imported with zero tariffs as per the Sri Lanka–Singapore Free Trade Agreement. - Bandula Gunawardana, 17 October 2018, Divaina

    • Bandula Gunawardana: Tax Revenue 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 8/12/2021)
      PARTLY TRUE: The tax revenue in 2014 at the end of Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government was Rs. 1,050 billion. Thereafter, its successor the Good Governance Government imposed tax rates to collect more than Rs. 1,700 billion a ...

    • Bandula Gunawardane: Fiscal Management (Responsibility) Act 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 6/8/2023)
      TRUE: …. the Fiscal Management Responsibility Act No. 3 of 2003…had three main goals…to maintain the budget gap below 5%..... reducing public debt as a percentage of GDP to 65% by 2013, that is, in 10 years…. reducing the ...

    • Bandula Gunawardane: Total Exports 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 2/3/2022)
      PARTLY TRUE: Sri Lanka increased exports by 23% amidst challenging environment faced both locally and globally. Total exports are USD 12.3 billion in 2020 and USD15.12 billion in 2021. - Bandula Gunawardane, Official ...

    • Basil Rajapaksa: 2021 Government Revenue 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 11/11/2021)
      BLATANTLY FALSE: Especially due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Rs. 1500-1600 billion has reduced from the revenue that we should have generated during this year alone. That is even higher than the amount we estimated to be the ...

    • Basil Rajapaksa: Poultry and eggs 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 12/9/2021)
      TRUE:Sri Lanka…[is] already [close to being] self-sufficient in eggs and poultry. - Basil Rajapaksa, Budget Speech, 12 Novemeber 2021

    • Budget Check 2021 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 11/17/2020)
      For the very first time in Sri Lanka, the FactCheck team at Verité Research conducted the inaugural #BudgetCheck2021. The team carried out live fact checking on claims made by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in his 2021 ...

    • College of Community Physicians: COVID-19 Burials 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 1/14/2021)
      TRUE: WHO, CDC and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control had issued clear and extensive guidelines on handling dead bodies confirmed or suspected as having COVID-19… all these global pandemic control ...