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The applicable flat rate of 5 percent will be charged on gaming revenues, similar to proposed levies on a proposed resort by John Keells. However, no mention of corporate tax for casino profits was made in the notice, unlike the latter development.
Sri Lanka currently maintains the lowest taxes on casino revenues when compared with regional competitors in the industry like Macao and Singapore which both maintain rates of 40 and 22 percent respectively.
Lake Leisure is a joint venture between local entrepreneur, Ravi Wijeratne’s Rank Holdings and Packer who holds the majority stake in the partnership.
Tax concessions on the casino and resort have been projected to cost the state as much as US$ 1 billion in foregone revenue.( CF)
Ceylonese Wednesday, 24 July 2013 12:53 PM
James Packer's casino and hotel project in Sydney will cost $ 3.5 billion, Crown Phillipines is worth $1billion, Macau City and Casino $ 3 billion, Burswood in Perth $568million while he also owns the Crown Casino in Melbourne and Aspinall in London He is also targetting Japan and will have a $12.1 billion worth of casino projects in Asia alone. But James Packer is not the richest person in Australia but Gina Reinheart the mining magnate who is worth $15 billion tipped to be the richest woman in the world by end of 2013.
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