The Internal Resources Division (IRD) under the Ministry of Finance has exempted VAT at the trading stage for certain essential commodities, aiming to stabilise the consumer goods market.

The list includes domestically produced flour and biscuits, refined flour, salt, lentils and leguminous grains, mustard oil, rice bran oil, ground chilli, coriander, ginger, rapeseed oil, colza seed oil, canola oil, turmeric or similar spice blends and semolina and sunflower seed oil.