COPA questions lion’s share of fines going to Customs-By Shamindra Ferdinando Irregularities, lapses, corruption erode public finance Source:Island The Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) has summoned the Inland Revenue Department tomorrow (23) for an inquiry regarding the inordinate delay in collecting taxes amounting to billions of rupees and extraordinary payments made to the officers of the Customs Department out of fines imposed on both public and private sector enterprises. Besides, a COPA sub-committee is inquiring into revenue losses suffered over the years as a result of releasing vehicles imported for special purposes as dual-purpose vehicles. ...
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Human – elephant conflict Source:Island Electric fencing, white elephant The Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) revealed that although Rs. 490 million had been spent on building electric fences between 2019 and 2020, there had been no decrease in the incidents of the human-elephant conflict. The cost of constructing the electric fences in 2019 to prevent human-elephant conflict was Rs. 275,447,639 and the amount spent for this purpose in the year 2020 was Rs. 221,505,818. The total length of the electric fences was 4,756 km. ...
Mar 31, 2021
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Tagged B.Y.G Ratnasekera, Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, Dr. Upul Galappaththi, Lasantha Alagiyawanna, Members of Parliament Tissa Attanayake, Mohamed Muzammil, Niroshan Perera, Prasanna Ranaweera, Prof. Tissa Vitarana, S. Sridharan, State Ministers Dayasiri Jayasekara, the Committee on Public Accounts, Weerasumana Weerasinghe
