The Court of Appeal today (November 6) proposed that an administrative settlement be explored in the ongoing writ applications filed by Sri Lanka’s national male and female cricketers challenging a tax classification by the Inland Revenue Department. The petitions filed by ODI and T20 captain Charith Asalanka and Test captain Dhananjaya de Silva, along with female cricketers Chamari Athapaththu and Anushka Sanjeewani, were taken up before Court of Appeal President Justice Rohantha Abeysuriya PC and Justice Priyantha Fernando. The cricketers have contested the Inland Revenue Department’s decision to classify them as employees of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) and to retrospectively…
Court proposes talks to settle cricketers’ tax row
Published in News
More from NewsMore posts in News »
- Restoration of Northern, Talaimannar railway lines begins
- Education reforms should suit the country, not the JVP: Namal
- Bride and groom among 8 killed in gas cylinder blast at Pakistan wedding
- Four arrested over alleged Grand Pass shooting plot
- Sri Lanka’s China-backed Hambantota Port eyes 2mn box capacity after 700-pct growth