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Ranjit Siyabalapitiya: Fiscal Position
(www.factcheck.lk , 2/2/2023)
FALSE: In 2022, the government’s revenue and expenditure difference were as high as 256% or Rs. 3,058 billion. [In 2023] The government expect the revenue to be Rs. 3.45 trillion, while the expenditure will go up to Rs. ...
Namal Rajapaksa: Education
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/21/2019)
FALSE: Today 560,000 sit the Ordinary Level examination. 340,000 sit the Advanced Level examination. Around 65,000 – 100,000 pass the examination. Approximately 28,000 go to university.
- Namal Rajapaksa, Mawbima, 11 July 2019
Dinesh Gunawardena: Foreign Remittances
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/18/2020)
TRUE: In 2018 the income the country received from overseas workers was about USD 7 billion. That was 7.9% of that year’s GDP.
- Dinesh Gunawardena, Divaina, 9 June 2020
Rajitha Senaratne: WHO on SL Health Service Rank
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/30/2019)
FALSE: Within the world healthcare system, the fact that the best health service is provided by Cuba and Sri Lanka has been accepted by the World Health Organization.
- Rajitha Senaratne, Mawbima, 4 February 2019
Mahinda Amaraweera: Public Sector Spending
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/7/2021)
FALSE: More than 85% of government revenue goes to pay salaries and pensions to public servants.
- Mahinda Amaraweera, Media briefing Department of Government Information, 1 September 2021
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: GDP growth
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/2/2020)
PARTLY TRUE: Prior to 2015, the economic growth rate was between 7% and 8%, but by 2019, it fell below 2%.
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Divaina, 16 June 2020
Anura Kumara Dissanayaka: Increase in debt during yahapaalanaya
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/7/2023)
FALSE: When Ranil Wickremesinghe came to power in 2015, our debt was LKR 8.5 trillion […] In 2020, the country’s debt […] stood at LKR 15 trillion […] Approximately, Ranil’s five years put the country more in debt by LKR ...
Ranil Wickremesinghe: Direct and Indirect Taxes
(www.factcheck.lk , 2/17/2023)
TRUE: In other countries, most of the taxes are collected from a higher income bracket. In 2021, in India – 50% direct tax…Bangladesh – direct tax 32%...Nepal – direct 31%....69%. Indonesia – direct tax 40%...Vietnam – ...
Wigneswaran: Unemployment disparity
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/31/2020)
FALSE: “Unemployment in our war-affected areas have exceeded 10% while the national average proportion of unemployment is less than 6%.”
- C. V. Wigneswaran, Daily FT, 12 September 2020
Kanchana Wijesekara: Fuel prices
(www.factcheck.lk , 5/24/2022)
TRUE: Fuel Price will be revised from 3am today. Fuel pricing formula that was approved by the cabinet was applied to revise the prices. Price revision includes all costs incurred in importing, unloading, distribution to ...