- State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya says persons who open income tax files under the recent gazette will not be asked questions on tax returns not filed in prior years: the gazette is applicable to doctors, lawyers, vehicle owners and others who have to open income tax files from 1st June 2023 onwards: all persons over 18 years will also have to do so, from next year.
- ADB DG for South Asia, Kenichi Yokoyama says the ADB is committed to further enhance its support for Sri Lanka: asserts Sri Lanka is now eligible for concessional and market-based financing, technical assistance, policy advice, and knowledge solutions that will address the crisis.
- Fitch Ratings says weak operating conditions for Sri Lankan insurers raise near-term downside risks to their credit profiles: also says operating risks have risen due to the sovereign’s deteriorated credit profile: asserts the sparse foreign-currency liquidity in the local banking system could limit insurers’ ability to meet foreign-currency obligations.
- President’s Office says, based on the recommendation of the Cabinet Appointed Special Committee, an agreement was signed between the Govt and RM Parks Inc., in collaboration with Shell for a long-term contract for the import, storage, distribution, & sale of petroleum products in Sri Lanka.
- Long-standing Governor of the Sabaragamuwa Province Tikiri Kobbekaduwa resigns from his post.
- Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekara says 255 Ceypetco dealers failed to maintain minimum stocks for any products last week: instructs CPC to take legal steps against dealers who have violated conditions on agreements.
- Police say the Court has issued an order preventing NPP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake & several others from holding protest demonstrations around the Elections Commission office.
- Parliamentary Business Committee decides to hold a debate on the Anti-Corruption bill on June 21.
- Airport and Aviation Services Chairman G A Chandrasiri says the Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport is planning several new activities at the airport to boost revenues: such activities to include an aircraft dismantling center, aircraft parking, a maintenance repair & overhaul centre, cargo trans-shipment, Aircraft Dis-assembly and Re-cycling.
- Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa says MP Harsha de Silva’s appointment as the Chairman of the Public Finance Committee is welcome, but is a bad precedent as it violates Standing Orders since it was President Ranil Wickremesinghe who had come to Parliament to appoint him to the post.
