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| Sunday, 12 December 2004 |
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The Inland Revenue Department wants to recognise the honest tax payers and create a new tax culture. May I also suggest that a tax credit of 1% of tax payable subject to a maximum of Rs. 1,000 be given, to those filing the income tax return on or before June 30. The present deadline for filing returns is Nov. 30. I am sure 90% of the returns are filed in the month of November. It would then be necessary for the tax dept to dispatch the returns in April and not in October as at present. For the credit given the Tax Dept can issue a voucher, which would enable deduction from tax payable for the following year. Employers can be authorised to grant credit for P.A.Y.E. tax on the basis of the voucher. Consequently the tax department will not get bogged down on paper work other than the issue of the voucher. Just imagine the efficiency at the department by spreading the work load throughout the year. Sumedha Amaradasa, Establish a Children's Hospital at Galle Karapitiya Hospital is a very big hospital in the southern area and it provides invaluable service to the southerners. However lack of special children's hospital in the southern area large number of baby patients are transferred per day from southern hospital to Lady Ridgeway Hospital to get treatment. Patients from remote areas like Kataragama, Hambantota, Matara and Galle possibly have to spend one or two days to take a sick child to the Colombo Lady Ridgeway Children's Hospital. Therefore it is very much necessary to establish a children's hospital at Galle as relief to people who are from remote areas mentioned above. D. D. De S. Rajakaruna, Ranil must heed to the prelates' advice Ranil Wickremesinghe who promised to support Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga's proposed constitution in 2000, went back on his word, signed the MoU with the LTTE and gave them various concessions detrimental to national security getting nothing in return has repeatedly refused to join the NACPR that aims to forge a southern consensus. The two prelates of Malwatte and Asgiriya have repeatedly advised him to participate in the NACPR. But Ranil was not prepared to change his stance. He insisted that the govt. must resume talks on the basis of the Oslo Declaration which, according to Anton Balasingham, is non-existent, while Prabhakaran insists that the LTTE will not budge an inch from the ISGA. Does this mean that Ranil, the leader of the alternative govt. and the aspirant to presidency wants to push the govt. to agree to the ISGA so that the anti - ISGA lobby will topple the govt. enabling him to return to power and win the presidential election. His latest excuse is that one UNF member has joined the govt. forgetting that he took ten PA men and toppled that govt, just three years ago. It is imperative that he should heed the prelates' advice in his own interests and the national well-being. S. Abeywickrama President Kumaratunga's recent pronouncement on the need of the hour for multi-religious and multi-racial schools, is a case in point that warrants serious consideration by those concerned. However, let us also hope that it will not raise a hornet's nest, so to speak judging from the recent fuss over relatively trivial issues, bandied about by a variety of opportunistic fora, politically motivated or otherwise. Eric C. Fernando, Living and working with the rural population I have noticed the menacing evil among the poor population both in the villages and the estate sectors. This evil creates havoc in the economic, social and health well being of the said poor population. The Police is unable to contain this evil as they are in cahoots with the Kasippu mudalali, collecting its own takes. This evil must be handled by a body where the excise, police, Grama Niladari, temples, churches and the kovils make a combined effort. The fines for offenses like distilling, transport, selling and even consuming the dreaded drink, should be raised several times as were done for traffic offenses in the budget proposals. Both offenses are killers. Dr. N. G. D. Karandana, |
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