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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 ...
Ajith Nivard Cabraal: ISB debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/26/2021)
PARTLY TRUE: As of now (February 2021), the total ISBs outstanding is USD 14 billion, which is only 16.7 percent of Sri Lanka’s total debt. None of the other creditors who hold 83.3 percent of Sri Lanka’s debt seem to show ...
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: International Sovereign Bonds
(www.factcheck.lk , 6/26/2022)
PARTLY TRUE: Every month we have to repay the loans that previous governments had obtained for various reasons. On ISBs, by 2015, we had only taken out USD 5 billion worth of them. During the time of the previous government, ...
Bandula Gunawardana: Central Bank Liability
(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
Patali Champika Ranawaka: Yahapalanaya revenue increase
(www.factcheck.lk, 4/29/2020)
PARTLY TRUE: When the Yahapalana government came into power, state revenue was LKR 1.05 trillion. Our government doubled this income to LKR 2.1 trillion within 5 years.
- Patali Champika Ranawaka, Lankadeepa, 6 February 2020
Sajith Premadasa: Sugar Scam
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/9/2021)
TRUE: Sri Lanka has lost Rs. 20 billion as a result of the sugar scam.
- Sajith Premadasa, Official Facebook page of Sajith Premadasa, 27 August 2021