🇱🇰 3 Months, No Policy — E-Commerce Still in Limbo

Anura bossa no solution da mewata?

Don't forget 300+ containers what happened this is just the beginning Sri Lanka is Sri Lanka

Don't expect solutions from this government they have forgotten from where they came and have no idea where they are going a nother lost opportunity for Sri Lanka

පුනරුදය

If dollar goes to 500 Voter said before 2024 September, we will need a system change change is bit difficult, But system change is ok 👌 🥰

Chathuranga Abeysinghe Does this sound right?

Mihila Maduranga Rajapaksha poddak kiyanna hicchi abey ta..

Chathuranga Abeysinghe FYI ! Please take an action on this, its being 3 months since all your drama

Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development As i know, Ministry of Finance is also tasked with handling this part. Wonder what’s causing the delay

Chathuranga Abeysinghe

Same here

I'm not anti-NPP and not against everything they do, but this is one of the worst things they've done. Chathuranga seems to have bitten more than he can chew, and we are the ones suffocating for it.

Chathuranga Abeysinghe

If an item purchased for personal use within tax limit also applicable for taxes in e commerce, but no one buy items in AliExpress for business purposes, there are some other platforms available for business like Alibaba

Chathuranga Abeysinghe Bullshit

චතුරංගයා හෙන හෑල්ලක් ලිව්වා මතකද? කට විතරයි වැඩ නෑ.

Anthony Anura Silva

The only country impose tax on personal items. tax=fraud

Chathuranga Abeysinghe Chathuranga Abeysinghe හොඳට තිබ්බ platform එකට මෙවා ඔයාල දාපු ප්‍රශ්න නේ? කෙල කරල දැන් විසඳන්න බැ වගෙද? හැන්ගිලා ඉන්නෙ

The standard and selection standard shipping methods used to collect all orders and ship individual orders in one shipment, then get the items released based on weight (800/- tax per kilo IIRC) The issue was that bulk importers abused this system and the government lost tax revenues by the bucketload so they stopped this "bulk taxing scheme" and started to tax based on HS code so every item gets charged the correct tax amount (for example electronic items gets 27.5% charged as tax, car parts 36% etc) Aliexpress would include this amount as shipping or as tax seperately . Although the tax amount seems unfair on aliexpress side it could be due to the adding up of extra handling cost for the local courier companies and also for their shipping lines . This happens for items that likely exceed about 200g (from my exp). I have attached how much documents has been attached to a recent order of 1.6$ item which had another 10$ shipping cost. the bulk ordering people will still can keep their costs low since they can customize their order shipping options.but when reselling they will again match the platform prices making huge profits. so finally its the end customer that gets ripped of from all this drama . SL Government should introduce a de minimis exemption scheme as suggested by Harsha de Silva for personal imports and get AliExpress to stop charging this massively inflated prepaid tax, this is getting way out of hand . Recently saw where a custom officer got speechless when asked about the overall tax income gain they got with the new scheme in front of COPE lol . https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSyB4qbGF/

The only cheap and affordable platform we had for a little happiness

#JVP