The Hon. Lal Premanath
Lal Premanath asked the Minister of Plantation and Community Infrastructure to provide details on the cess levied on exported finished tea, including the current rate per kilogram and total revenue collected in 2024. He further requested a breakdown of allocations from that revenue to the Sri Lanka Tea Board, Tea Small Holdings Development Authority, and Tea Research Institute, and asked whether expenditure reports for those funds would be presented to Parliament.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Question to the Minister of Plantation and Community Infrastructure:
¶ 02 (a) Will he inform this House— (i) whether he is aware that a cess is levied on finished tea exported from Sri Lanka; (ii) the cess per kilogram at present; (iii) the income earned through the cess in 2024; (iv) the amounts given from that income to the Sri Lanka Tea Board, Tea Small Holdings Development Authority, and Tea Research Institute, separately; and (v) whether he will present reports on how each spent those funds?
¶ 03 (b) If not, why?
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Cite as: The Hon. Lal Premanath. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 22 January 2025. No. 1739261035021938. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/5669