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Anura Priyadharshana Yapa: mobile phone taxes
(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
Dinesh Gunawardena: IDP Resettlement
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/25/2020)
PARTLY TRUE: “Sri Lanka also made significant progress in the resettlement of over 440,000 IDPs … presently it has risen to 93.76%.”
- Dinesh Gunawardena, Daily FT, 28 February 2020
Ranjith Siyambalapitiya: Import Shortage
(www.factcheck.lk , 2/23/2023)
FALSE: …It is because this step was taken [ban imports on certain items] that essential items such as fuel, medicine and fertiliser can be imported without any shortages…
Ranjith Siyabalapitiya, Newswire, 26 January 2023
Anura Kumara Dissanayake - National Wealth
(www.factcheck.lk , 3/2/2023)
PARTLY TRUE: Today, 36% of our country’s national wealth is generated from the Western Province. The North Central Province’s contribution to our country’s national wealth is 5%. The contribution of the North Western ...
Ranjith Siyambalapitiya: Casino taxes
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/5/2023)
PARTLY TRUE: […] Effective April 1, 2023, we hope to impose a fee of USD 50 on every Sri Lankan who enters such a place of business of gaming. This law was in place since 2015. From 2015, the stated law was to charge USD ...
Eran Wickramaratne: All Borrowings Used to Repay Debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/22/2019)
PARTLY TRUE: Total borrowings by the Government have been completely used to repay debt.
- Eran Wickramaratne, Daily FT, 19 June 2019
Rohana Bandara: Sri Lanka's debt to China
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/3/2021)
TRUE: 14% of Sri Lanka’s debt is owed to China… - Rohana Bandara, Dinamina, 10 May 2021
Maithripala Sirisena: absolute poverty
(factchecklka - Facebook, 4/4/2019)
PARTLY TRUE: The absolute poverty ratio of the country has been reported as 6.7%...
- Maithripala Sirisena, 4 February 2019, Independence Day Speech
Rajitha Senaratne: COVID-19 testing statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/20/2020)
PARTLY TRUE: [The number in Sri Lanka considered to have contracted Covid-19] is determined only by the number of people that have been tested for the virus. Symptoms of Covid-19 appear only in 15% [of the infected]. Others ...
Sajith Premadasa: Income inequality
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/3/2019)
FALSE: While the richest 20 per cent enjoy 54 per cent of the national income, the poorest 20 per cent of the country enjoys only 4 percent of it.
- Sajith Premadasa, Lankadeepa, 9 July 2019