Sri Lanka - Taxes on goods and services

Taxes on goods and services (current LCU)

The value for Taxes on goods and services (current LCU) in Sri Lanka was 971,822,000,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 29 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,059,090,000,000 in 2018 and a minimum value of 31,388,000,000 in 1990.

Definition: Taxes on goods and services include general sales and turnover or value added taxes, selective excises on goods, selective taxes on services, taxes on the use of goods or property, taxes on extraction and production of minerals, and profits of fiscal monopolies.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

Year Value
1990 31,388,000,000
1991 35,140,000,000
1992 40,149,000,000
1993 49,490,000,000
1994 57,156,000,000
1995 71,847,000,000
1996 78,709,000,000
1997 87,830,000,000
1998 91,706,000,000
1999 102,391,000,000
2000 122,802,000,000
2001 136,632,000,000
2002 149,852,000,000
2003 152,533,000,000
2004 191,525,000,000
2005 227,935,000,000
2006 259,183,000,000
2007 286,157,000,000
2008 306,409,000,000
2009 272,383,000,000
2010 355,366,000,000
2011 407,664,000,000
2012 492,300,000,000
2013 506,906,000,000
2014 539,023,000,000
2015 724,282,000,000
2016 840,564,000,000
2017 1,023,700,000,000
2018 1,059,090,000,000
2019 971,822,000,000

Taxes on goods and services (% of revenue)

Taxes on goods and services (% of revenue) in Sri Lanka was 51.18 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 29 years was 59.84 in 2004, while its lowest value was 37.54 in 2009.

Definition: Taxes on goods and services include general sales and turnover or value added taxes, selective excises on goods, selective taxes on services, taxes on the use of goods or property, taxes on extraction and production of minerals, and profits of fiscal monopolies.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

See also:

Year Value
1990 42.23
1991 41.69
1992 42.69
1993 46.49
1994 48.32
1995 49.49
1996 51.12
1997 51.03
1998 50.34
1999 50.52
2000 56.75
2001 57.00
2002 56.12
2003 53.67
2004 59.84
2005 55.28
2006 51.13
2007 48.09
2008 44.63
2009 37.54
2010 42.60
2011 42.92
2012 46.15
2013 43.95
2014 45.41
2015 49.58
2016 49.64
2017 55.65
2018 54.81
2019 51.18

Taxes on goods and services (% value added of industry and services)

Taxes on goods and services (% value added of industry and services) in Sri Lanka was 7.57 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 29 years was 14.00 in 1995, while its lowest value was 6.11 in 2014.

Definition: Taxes on goods and services include general sales and turnover or value added taxes, selective excises on goods, selective taxes on services, taxes on the use of goods or property, taxes on extraction and production of minerals, and profits of fiscal monopolies.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, and World Bank and OECD value added estimates.

See also:

Year Value
1990 13.30
1991 12.94
1992 12.78
1993 13.19
1994 12.98
1995 14.00
1996 13.23
1997 12.64
1998 11.43
1999 11.68
2000 12.19
2001 12.15
2002 11.05
2003 9.65
2004 10.47
2005 10.54
2006 9.95
2007 9.05
2008 8.02
2009 6.45
2010 6.82
2011 6.79
2012 6.57
2013 6.18
2014 6.11
2015 7.82
2016 8.32
2017 9.27
2018 8.87
2019 7.57

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance