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A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.

Ahmed Munawar

Parliament budget committee meeting of last year

In 2018: what will be the new tax?

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The original Dhivehi article was published on Avas.mv website on 18th October 2017. The following is a loose translation: With every year’s budget, new items are also declared. Specifically as income returns. It has become a recent norm to see a new tax introduced every year. Question is, as a new source of generating income, […]

Ahmed Munawwar - Finance minister

Maldives budgetary income proposals, an illusion

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The original Dhivehi article was published on Mihaaru.com website on 2nd October 2017. The following is a loose translation: In the past 2 years, when the national budget was proposed to the People’s Majlis (Maldives Parliament), billions of Rufiyaa was stated as projected income from Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and from other activities. However, those […]