Sri Lanka - Taxes on exports

Taxes on exports (current LCU)

The value for Taxes on exports (current LCU) in Sri Lanka was 2,299,688,000.00 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 29 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 2,980,142,000.00 in 2017 and a minimum value of 0.00 in 1994.

Definition: Taxes on exports are all levies on goods being transported out of the country or services being delivered to nonresidents by residents. Rebates on exported goods that are repayments of previously paid general consumption taxes, excise taxes, or import duties are deducted from the gross amounts receivable from these taxes, not from amounts receivable from export taxes.

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

Year Value
1990 2,549,000,000.00
1991 1,137,000,000.00
1992 821,000,000.00
1993 57,000,000.00
1994 0.00
1995 8,000,000.00
1996 5,000,000.00
1997 4,000,000.00
1998 0.00
1999 0.00
2000 0.00
2001 0.00
2002 0.00
2003 0.00
2004 0.00
2005 0.00
2006 24,000,000.00
2007 33,000,000.00
2008 0.00
2009 0.00
2010 0.00
2011 0.00
2012 0.00
2013 0.00
2014 0.00
2015 0.00
2016 2,672,011,000.00
2017 2,980,142,000.00
2018 2,591,714,000.00
2019 2,299,688,000.00

Taxes on exports (% of tax revenue)

Taxes on exports (% of tax revenue) in Sri Lanka was 0.13 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 29 years was 4.16 in 1990, while its lowest value was 0.00 in 1994.

Definition: Taxes on exports are all levies on goods being transported out of the country or services being delivered to nonresidents by residents. Rebates on exported goods that are repayments of previously paid general consumption taxes, excise taxes, or import duties are deducted from the gross amounts receivable from these taxes, not from amounts receivable from export taxes.

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

See also:

Year Value
1990 4.16
1991 1.67
1992 1.08
1993 0.07
1994 0.00
1995 0.01
1996 0.00
1997 0.00
1998 0.00
1999 0.00
2000 0.00
2001 0.00
2002 0.00
2003 0.00
2004 0.00
2005 0.00
2006 0.01
2007 0.01
2008 0.00
2009 0.00
2010 0.00
2011 0.00
2012 0.00
2013 0.00
2014 0.00
2015 0.00
2016 0.18
2017 0.18
2018 0.15
2019 0.13

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance