Sri Lanka
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Free Sri Lankan tools, exam results and cut-off marks, education notices, public holidays and Poya days, and news from Sri Lanka. Each part is kept current from official sources.
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Sri Lanka tools
Free calculators and checks built on Sri Lankan rules, grouped by what you are doing. Each group starts with the tool most people need first. They run in your browser, and each page names the official source it follows.
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Salary and employment
Take-home pay after EPF and APIT, the gross salary behind a take-home figure, EPF and ETF contributions, gratuity under the Payment of Gratuity Act, overtime under the Shop and Office Employees Act, and the length of a service period. The salary tools share one tax engine, so their answers agree.
- Net salary calculator (Sri Lanka)Take-home pay after EPF and APIT income tax, plus what the employer really pays.
- Net to gross salary calculator (Sri Lanka)Find the gross monthly salary that gives the take-home pay you want, after 8% EPF and APIT income tax. Solved exactly, with the net salary calculator's rules.
- EPF & ETF calculatorMonthly EPF and ETF contributions on any salary, with a rough projection of your EPF balance.
- Gratuity calculator (Sri Lanka)Work out gratuity under the Payment of Gratuity Act: half a month's pay for each completed year after five years.
- Overtime pay calculator (Sri Lanka)Overtime pay for shop and office employees from monthly, daily or hourly pay: 1.5 times the hourly rate, monthly pay divided by 240, both editable.
- Service period calculator (Sri Lanka)Years, months and days of service between two dates, the completed years that gratuity needs, and the date you reach five years.
Tax and levies
Income tax on a year of employment income under the 2025/26 bands, whether a business has passed the VAT registration threshold, and the Social Security Contribution Levy for a quarter. Each one names the Inland Revenue Department notice it follows and lets you change the rates.
- Annual income tax calculator (Sri Lanka)Income tax on a year of employment income in Sri Lanka: Rs. 1,800,000 relief, then 6% to 36%, with the effective rate and a band-by-band breakdown.
- VAT registration threshold checker (Sri Lanka)Enter your taxable turnover for 12 months or four quarters and see if it is over the Sri Lanka VAT registration threshold, with headroom and a running total.
- SSCL calculator (Social Security Contribution Levy)Enter turnover for each month of a quarter and see the Sri Lanka SSCL payable at 2.5%, the amount for each month, the due dates and the working.
- Income tax payment due dates (Sri Lanka)Pick a year of assessment and see the four income tax instalment dates, the final payment date and the return date, with instalment amounts and late interest.
Banking, loans and savings
Loan and leasing payments and the real rate behind a flat-rate quote, how much you can borrow, fixed deposit interest after tax, Treasury bill prices and yields, the price of gold jewellery in pavan, and rupee amounts in words for a cheque. None of them carries live market rates: you enter today's rate from your bank or jeweller.
- Loan & leasing calculatorMonthly payment, full repayment schedule, and the real interest rate hidden in a flat-rate quote.
- Loan affordability calculator (how much can I borrow)Find the largest loan a monthly payment can service at your rate and term, or work the payment out from your income and current debts.
- Fixed deposit calculator (Sri Lanka)Interest, tax and maturity value on a fixed deposit, paid at maturity, monthly or yearly, with the effective annual rate (AER).
- Treasury bill calculator (Sri Lanka)Price, yield and rupee return on Sri Lankan Treasury bills of 91, 182 or 364 days. You enter the current rate.
- Gold jewellery price calculator (pavan and grams)Turn the weight of a gold piece in pavan or grams, its karat and your jeweller's rate into the gold value, making charge, wastage and final price.
- Rupees in words (cheques and invoices)Write a rupee amount in English words for a cheque or invoice, such as Rupees One Hundred and Twenty Three and Cents Forty Five Only.
- Rooftop solar payback calculator (Sri Lanka)Enter system size, installed cost, sun hours and the export rate to see simple payback, yearly benefit and a 20 year table for rooftop solar in Sri Lanka.
Household bills
Work out a CEB or LECO electricity bill from your units or meter readings on the tariff the Public Utilities Commission approved, see where the next block starts, and what each appliance adds to the month.
Vehicles and travel
The gazetted toll between any two expressway interchanges, the NTC bus fare for any fare stage, which railway lines are running after the cyclone repairs, the 33 traffic spot fines, and what a number plate's series says about when it was issued.
- Expressway toll calculator (Sri Lanka)The gazetted toll between any two interchanges on the Southern, Outer Circular, Katunayake and Central expressways, for each vehicle category.
- Bus fare calculator (Sri Lanka, NTC)The new bus fare from 6 July 2026 for any fare stage, or from the fare you paid before, on normal, semi-luxury and luxury buses.
- Sri Lanka train times and line statusWhich railway lines are running after the cyclone repairs, stretch by stretch, and the departure times Sri Lanka Railways has announced.
- Sri Lanka traffic spot finesThe 33 traffic offences with a spot fine and the amount for each, from the 2018 gazette, plus the court fine bands for speeding.
- Sri Lanka number plate checkerRead a Sri Lankan number plate: its series, the province letters, and the dates that series is known to cover, with honest limits on the year.
Exams and universities
Take an official A/L Z-score to the university courses it reaches in your district, or estimate a Z-score from your marks with subject statistics you enter. The exam results and cut-off marks themselves are on the Updates pages.
Identity and phone numbers
Read the birth date, gender and age encoded in an old or new NIC number, and check whether a Sri Lankan phone number is well formed, mobile or landline, and how it is written with +94. Both take a whole pasted list, and no number leaves your browser.
Holidays and Poya days
Every public, bank and mercantile holiday and Poya day of 2026 and 2027 from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka's lists, with the next holiday, long weekends and a working-day counter.
- Sri Lanka public holidays 2027 & 2026Every gazetted public, bank and mercantile holiday and Poya day, with the next holiday, long weekends and a working-day counter.
- Poya days 2026 and 2027 (Sri Lanka)Every Poya day of 2026 and 2027 with its name and weekday, the next Poya day, and the number of days to go.
Also made for Sri Lanka
VAT at the Sri Lankan rate, GPA on Sri Lankan university scales, land in perches, Buddhist Era years, Colombo time and Sinhala typing.
Recently updated: Electricity bill calculator (CEB and LECO) (28 October 2026), A/L Z-score calculator and course checker (28 October 2026), Expressway toll calculator (Sri Lanka) (28 October 2026), Sri Lanka number plate checker (28 October 2026).
Exam results and cut-off marks
Official Sri Lankan exam results and cut-off marks, copied number for number from the official lists and easy to search on a phone.
- University admissionSri Lanka University Cut-Off Marks 2025/2026Minimum Z-scores for every course at every state university, searchable by district. Check what you would have qualified for.
- Grade 5 scholarshipGrade 5 Scholarship Cut-Off Marks 2024-2026District cut-off marks for the Grade 5 Scholarship Exam, Sinhala and Tamil medium, 2024 to 2026. Enter a mark to check it, and see twelve years of the trend. The school-by-school Grade 6 list has its own page.
- School admissionGrade 6 school cut-off marks (302 schools)Cut-off marks for the 302 schools on the Ministry of Education's latest Grade 6 list, Sinhala and Tamil medium, with a school finder, the application and appeals timeline, and how the table was checked.
- Exam resultsGCE A/L results: how to check, re-correction and what nextWhere to check G.C.E. A/L results on the official sites, how the re-correction window has run in past years, what a Z-score is, and the steps to a university place. No result lookup and no index numbers.
University cut-off marks by course
Every university and district for one degree on one page, from the University Grants Commission's cut-off lists.
Education notices
New courses, scholarships, application windows and exam notices for A/L students and undergraduates, added daily from official notices.
- Pathway guideRecognised non-state degree awarding institutes in Sri Lanka: how to check the official listMinistry of Higher Education · 27 October 2026
- Programme or pathwayICCR India scholarships: IELTS or TOEFL certificate mandatory from 2027/2028Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) · 23 October 2026
- New courseUniversity of Sri Jayewardenepura Dental Surgery Nurse Assistant certificate: applications open to 30 Nov 2026University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Faculty of Dental Sciences · 8 October 2026
News from Sri Lanka
The newest posts from the blog's Sri Lanka, economy and sports sections.
Official sources these pages use
The rules, rates and figures on these pages come from the bodies that publish them. Each tool and data page lists the exact notice, Act or table it follows and when it was last checked.
- Inland Revenue DepartmentIncome tax and APIT bands, VAT registration, the SSCL and tax on deposit interest.Net salaryIncome taxSSCL
- Central Bank of Sri LankaThe public, bank and mercantile holiday lists, Poya days and the Treasury bill market.HolidaysPoya daysTreasury bills
- Employees' Provident Fund and Employees' Trust Fund BoardThe 8, 12 and 3 per cent contribution rules, with the EPF and ETF Acts.EPF and ETF
- Department of LabourGratuity and overtime, with the Payment of Gratuity Act and the Shop and Office Employees Act.GratuityOvertime
- University Grants CommissionUniversity cut-off Z-scores by course and district, and the admission handbook.University cut-off marks
- Department of ExaminationsGrade 5 scholarship cut-off marks and G.C.E. A/L results statistics.Grade 5 cut-off marksA/L results
Free data API
The holidays and Poya days, NIC decoding, phone number checks, amounts in words and Singlish to Sinhala are also a free JSON API for developers, with a free key.