PM announces more amendments to budget

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Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today pledged to add the Rs. 10,000 salary increment of government servants to the basic salary in three stages with Rs. 2,500 added in January next year and announced several amendments to budget proposals providing some tax reliefs while assuring more in the near future.

It was also announced that the pension scheme would not be abolished and all existing public servants would get it continuously.

Mr. Wickremesinghe who made a special statement in Parliament said the government has decided reduce the vehicle emission tax to Rs. 1,500 as an interim measure and to reduce the revenue license fee increase to 15 percent from 25 percent which was announced in the budget speech. (Yohan Perera)

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