No Power Vested With Provincial Council to Impose Tax on Abandoned Land- Bandula
Yesterday(10) the Chief Minister of the Western Provincial Council, Isura Devapriya announced and directed officials to assess the value of abandoned land in Western Province and impose a tax of 2% on it’s value.
In response, MP Bandula Gunawardena in a press brief of the Joint Opposition today said, that only parliament can take a decision to impose such tax and Provincial Council doesn’t have any powers to impose it.