Following the online posting of my articles on the government’s 2017 Budget proposals affecting the ICT sector a rich discussion occurred over Twitter, which included participation and fact gathering by one of Sri Lanka’s leading journalists, Namini Wijedasa who writes in the highest circulation English newspaper. Thanks mostly to a valiant social media spokesperson from the Ministry of Public Enterprise Development who tried, to the best of his ability, to defend the indefensible.
Examples below. Lot more Tweets.
@Nimilamalee @samarajiva @groundviews 2013-2014 saw an increase of 1.1m mobile BB users and 2bn mins of voice calls, despite 5% tax increase
— Dinouk Colombage (@Dinouk_C) November 18, 2016
@samarajiva @groundviews unless hard decisions are taken, we will be stuck in this economic rut
— Dinouk Colombage (@Dinouk_C) November 18, 2016
@groundviews @samarajiva am not in anyway defending tax increases, nobody likes to increase taxes. Simply pointing out the (1/2)
— Dinouk Colombage (@Dinouk_C) November 18, 2016
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