{"id":21490,"date":"2023-09-11T10:42:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T05:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=21490"},"modified":"2023-09-11T10:42:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T05:12:52","slug":"epf-loan-deductible-foreign-loans-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=21490","title":{"rendered":"EPF loan deductible \u2013 Foreign loans not"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although strategic measures are already being followed to cut off the loans taken from the EPF under the government debt write-off, it is revealed that no basic plan has been prepared yet to write off the loans taken from foreign institutions.<br \/>However, France&#8217;s Lazard Company and Clifford Chance are paid in dollars (in foreign exchange) for more than a year as their fees to carry out legal and management work related to the write-off of foreign debt.<br \/>Central Bank Governor Nandalal Weerasinghe and Finance Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe are acting as authorities in reducing the government&#8217;s domestic and foreign debt. Despite fast-tracking measures being taken concerning EPF debt write-offs, not even any statements are made regarding foreign debt write-offs.<\/p>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-21490' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=21490&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-21490' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-21490' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-21490' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-21490'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-21490' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-21490 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although strategic measures are already being followed to cut off the loans taken from the EPF under the government debt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-smartphones","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}