While a state broadcaster is getting Treasury handouts Sri Lanka's private television broadcasters had been slapped with crippling new taxes in recent years on their content.
"An advisory committee, headed by a retired judge of the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal or the High Court, will be appointed under the new law," the newspaper said.
"The committee will be consulted on any tax write-off by the Commissioner General of Inland Revenue."
The Commissioner General of Inland Revenue will also start a special default tax recovery unit. The unit is expected to come up with a report in six month identifying taxes in default.
Also getting tax-write off would be co-operative societies registered under the Co-operative Societies Law includ