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Eran Wickramaratne: Excise taxes
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/12/2024)
PARTLY TRUE: The government, despite taking the path of revenue-based stabilisation, has fallen significantly short of its targets. For instance, excise revenues have fallen short by approximately 43%, with collection at ...
Ranjith Madduma Bandara: Drowning statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/25/2019)
About 800 deaths due to drowning are reported annually.
Bandula Gunawardane: Total Exports
(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 ...
Rajitha Senaratne: Malaria Elimination
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/12/2020)
In 2016, I eliminated Malaria from Sri Lanka.
- Rajitha Senaratne, Divaina, 24 June 2020
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Foreign Loans
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/27/2022)
FALSE: I have not taken a cent in foreign loans during my two years in office. - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Newswire, 7 January 2022,
Harsha de Silva: EPF and ETF
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/25/2023)
TRUE: The majority of Sri Lanka’s domestic debt is in treasury bonds. We have [almost 9,000 billion] worth of treasury bonds….44.5% of that is in banks….43% was borrowed from EPF & ETF. Harsha de Silva, Daily FT, 20 April 2023
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Postal Department
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/12/2020)
TRUE: "The Postal Department is currently running at a loss of about Rs 6 billion. It generates an income of Rs 8 billion annually. The department’s expenditure runs to about Rs 14 billion on account of having overtime ...
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Misinformation on disability data
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/27/2020)
FALSE: In Sri Lanka, 20 percent of children are having a mental or physical disability.
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa, President’s Official Twitter Page, 25 January 2020
Ranjith Siyabalapitiya: On tax paying labour force
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/16/2023)
FALSE: "Only 120,965 persons or 2.6 percent of the labour force, who are earning over Rs.100,000 per month, are subjected to the PAYE tax."
Ranjith Siyabalapitiya, Daily Mirror, 11 February 2023
Dayasiri Jayasekara: Tourism earnings
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/29/2021)
TRUE: The tourism industry has collapsed completely following the Easter Sunday attacks and following this COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the collapse of the tourism industry, we have lost USD 5 billion per year that the country ...