Social Security Contribution Bill postponed after heated argument in Parliament

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Parliament today decided to postpone the enactment of the proposed Social Security Contribution Bill after heated argument between the ruling and the opposition party members.

This decision was made despite the earlier arrangement to approve the Bill unanimously without a debate.

Jathika Jana Balawegaya (JJB) MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake who opposed the Bill said it will add tax burden on the people.

SJB MP and Chairman of Public Finance Committee Dr. Harsha de Silva said it is not proper to enact a Bill without presenting a review of it.

“Public Finance Committee does not approve any Bill without reviewing it. However we had to approve the Social Security Contribution Bill as we were informed that it was urgent. Also we see that some amendments are to be made to the Bill. We cannot approve it without looking at them,” he said.

Leader of the House Susil Premajayantha said the Bill was something which was proposed by Former Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa during the budget.

“Also it is the tradition that a Bill can be approved by the House once it gets the clearance of the Finance Committee,” he said.

Minister Premajaynatha however proposed the postponement of the enacting to Thursday. MP Nimal Lansa said it is not proper for the opposition to come to the House and oppose it after approving it earlier at the Finance Committee and the party leaders meeting. (Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana)

Comments - 7

Reader Tuesday, 06 September 2022 02:32 PM

Does AKD want to print more money, if he does not want the funds to come out of new taxes? Is that the JJB way? In the meantime I suppose he is fine to delay relief being rolled out to the 'suffering masses' whom he masquerades to be championing for.

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Ram Tuesday, 06 September 2022 02:55 PM

All parliamentarians must oppose Bills that are unsavoury to the people specially when they have tighten their belts in an atmosphere where parliamentarians are paid a salary plus for every sitting, and many other perks that includes fuel rent, phone electricity water etc

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joshua Tuesday, 06 September 2022 03:13 PM

Rajapkshes ruined the country and now this Government is hell bent on increasing the taxes by agreeing to what IMF says. Why not let the IMF run the economy if this Govt does not have a backbone to do anything in the interest of the people? Together with VAT, the taxes has increased from 8% to 17.9%. This increase together with the rise in fuel prices etc has made most of the goods and services very expensive and beyond the lower and middle class. It stinks

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Perera Wednesday, 07 September 2022 06:12 PM

Well, the people voted for the Rajapaksa's who created this mess. At least they will learn a fine lesson and can take it up with the 'kalakanni' family.

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Iwazaru Tuesday, 06 September 2022 03:20 PM

Ranil needs to start by reducing the cabinet ministers and doing away with deputy and state ministers.

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Viktor Wednesday, 07 September 2022 12:02 PM

And the perks to Parliamentarians and ex-Presidents and their spouses

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Manu P Tuesday, 06 September 2022 08:12 PM

Reader, AKD wants the RW government to recover all the stolen money from family and friends of MR and stop all the wasteful expenses of the RW government of chartering a flight for loser GR, a Jumbo cabinet etc. Stop attacking the messenger and find the root cause of all this evil.

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