The government is keen on continuing the reform agenda that is currently being implemented and will soon introduce a new legislature to safeguard them and continue to the future.
This will ensure that whenever there is a change of government the reforms would continue, said State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe when he met the Executive Director in charge of India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan of the International Monetary Fund, Dr. Krishnamurthy Subramanian.
The IMF director’s attention was particularly drawn to delays faced in the digitization of the tax process. Minister Semasinghe said that the government has taken steps to increase the number of income tax files to about one million, which had decreased to about four hundred thousand due to various political decisions taken by previous governments.
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