# Selling alcohol from window "cages" and "take away restaurants" will be banned from January 1, 2026, under the Budget's Business Licence reforms, the Government's tax chief warned yesterday.

Amendments to the License Act will change the way liquor businesses register with the Department of Inland Revenue, and will ...

According to a recent report by Transparency International Sri Lanka on corruption in the private to public sectors, the findings states that Sri Lankan police actively engage in corruption, such as ...

The industries ministry, meanwhile, collects revenue from factories operating in the shipbreaking zone. The Bangladesh Ship Recycling Board (BSRB) under the ministry recently imposed an annual ...

The prime minister says the servers for the RON95 programme have a larger capacity than those of the Sumbangan Asas Rahmah ...

Charleston Mayor William Cogswell sets priority on flooding projects, including the Battery Extension, as the county ...

Good governance and effective economic policies have enabled Malaysia to lower the price of RON95 petrol to RM1.99 per litre, ...

Sri Lanka’s top export bodies yesterday sounded the alarm over government’s decision to eliminate the Simplified Value Added ...

By Charumini de Silva With just five days to go before the Government abolishes the Simplified Value Added Tax (SVAT) regime, ...

Shakaina Fraser is, in her own words, the dark horse in the 2025 mayoral race. She has detailed a platform focused on ...

Despite new laws and action plans, Sri Lanka’s response to the Pandora Papers has yielded press releases but no prosecutions ...

Exporters while reaffirming their commitment to working with authorities preparing to remove the Simplified Value Added Tax (SVAT) scheme on October 1, cautioned that introducing a seamless refund ...