Government provides various financial incentives to small businesses.
Examples:
• Short-term and long-term loans.
• Financial aid.
• Tax relief.
• Refinance facilities.
Government provides non-financial incentives to small businesses.
Examples:
• Expert consultation services.
• Entrepreneurship development programmes.
• Information services.
• Infrastructural facilities.
• Market facilities.
• Institutional facilities.
• Technical assistance

• Various incentives are provided by various institutions to small businesses.
Examples:
Institutions                                                                                                                                              Incentives

• Industrial Development Board                                                                         • Consultation services.
  • Technical services.
  • Infrastructural facilities
• Export Development Board.                                                                              • Marketing facilities.
  • Consultation services.
•  Sri Lanka Standards Institution.                                                                     • Consultation  services.
•  National Development Bank.                                                                           • Financial Facilities.
• Institute of Industrial Technology                                                                   • Technical services.
  • Consultation services.