Lakbima News, 10 August 2008:
An article published in the Lakbima News documents an interview held with Prof. Rohan Samarajiva on the proposed mobile phone taxes in Sri Lanka:
“Economic incentives are used to help the environment. The objective of such measures is not to make money – the sole objective should be to prevent people from doing things harmful to the environment. But if we take the two per cent envy levy on mobiles – for this to qualify as an incentive, it should modify certain behaviour…the behaviour that is modified is the use of mobile phones.”
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Rohan Samarajiva
Actually, the TRC has nothing to do with the envy levy; the blame for that lies with the Minister for the Enviornment, Mr Ranawaka. The journalist gets it right, but it’s the editor who puts the headline.