"All profits and income earned in foreign currency by any resident company, individual or partnership in Sri Lanka, from services rendered in or outside Sri Lanka, to any person partnership outside Sri Lanka will be exempted from income tax...," the notice said.
The money has to be deposited in a bank.
Sri Lanka has lost more than two thirds of the country's foreign reserves since the central bank began to defend a dollar peg by sterilizing reserve outflows from last September.
The island has negotiated a bailout from the International Monetary Fund, and the drawdown of the first tranche is expected in the last week of April if Sri Lanka completes a number of 'prior actions' including ending the defence of a dollar peg.