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Mahindananda Aluthgamage: Credit cards and tax files
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/25/2021)
BLATANTLY FALSE: There are nearly 1,000 tax files in our country. There are over 10 million credit cards in our country. Each credit card holder does transactions of nearly Rs. 1 million to 1.5 million. - Mahindananda ...
Ajith Nivard Cabraal: Foreign Reserves
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/28/2021)
TRUE: We had USD 8.2 billion in reserves… When the good governance government handed us the government, there was only USD 7.6 billion in reserves.
- Ajith Nivard Cabraal, Mawbima, 7 January 2021
Basil Rajapaksa: 2021 Government Revenue
(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 ...
W.D.J. Seneviratne: Foreign and central government debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/16/2021)
FALSE: At the time when Hon. Mahinda Rajapaksa handed over the government, we had only 72% of foreign loans. However, soon after the Yahapalana government, when we came into power that percentage has been increased up to ...
Ruwan Wijewardena: Covid-19 death analysis
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/23/2021)
PARTLY TRUE: It is said that 10 patients are dying every hour. The rate at which patients are dying is 1.5%. Sri Lanka has become the country that reports the highest death rate in Asia due to COVID-19.
- Ruwan Wijewardena, ...
Basil Rajapaksa: Poultry and eggs
(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
Namal Rajapaksa: Controlling COVID-19
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/21/2021)
FALSE: In the South Asian Region, the country that has most successfully controlled the pandemic is Sri Lanka - Namal Rajapaksa, Mawbima, 12 July 2021
Sanath Nishantha: GDP growth rankings of Sri Lanka and China
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/26/2021)
BLATANTLY FALSE: When we handed over the country to the Yahapalanaya government, China had the highest GDP growth rate in the world, and Sri Lanka was second.
- Sanath Nishantha, Lankadeepa, 30 July 2021
Bandula Gunawardana: Tax Revenue
(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 ...
Udaya Gammanpila: Fuel Imports
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/4/2021)
TRUE: Out of the total import expenditure, fuel is the foremost import item upon which more than 20% is spent. - Udaya Gammanpila, Dinamina, 1 October 2021