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NCOP Finance
Tax Bills: adoption
7 Dec 2016
All four Tax Bills were considered and adopted without amendment. The DA objected to certain items in the Taxation Laws Amendment Bill and in the Rates and Monetary Amounts and Amendment of Revenue Laws Bill, which were captured in the Committee Report.
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Adjustments Appropriation Bill; Finance Bill: briefing by National Treasury
1 Dec 2016
National Treasury briefed a joint meeting of the Standing and Select Committees on Appropriations on the 2016 Adjustments Appropriations Bill and the 2016 Finance Bill.
Members were informed about the different aspects of the Adjustments Appropriations Bill, which included unforeseeable and unavoidable expenditure, virements, roll-overs, self-financing expenditure, and declared unspent ...
NCOP Finance
Taxation Laws & Tax Administration Laws Amendment Bills; Rates & Monetary Amounts & Amendment of Revenue Laws & Administration Bills: briefing
30 Nov 2016
National Treasury and SARS briefed the Members on the two sets of Bills that were already voted on by the Standing Committee on Finance. The brief focused on the main amendments and issues raised during public comments. The main changes are: the Special Voluntary Disclosure Programme has been extended to ...
NCOP Appropriations
Division of Revenue Amendment Bill [B15-2016]: final mandates
29 Nov 2016
Documents handed out:
Final Mandates [awaited]
Committee Minutes
Committee Report on Division of Revenue Amendment Bill
[All Committee Reports available under Tabled Committee Reports once published]
Eight Provincial Legislatures submitted final mandates and voted in support of the Division of Revenue Amendment Bill. The Eastern Cape Legislature had not deliberated ...
NCOP Appropriations
Division of Revenue Amendment Bill: negotiating mandates
24 Nov 2016
The Committee met to deliberate on negotiating mandates from all the provinces on the 2016 Division of Revenue Adjustment (DoRA) Bill.
The Committee heard that the Limpopo and the Eastern Cape (EC) provinces had indicated electronically that they could not formulate a mandate for the DoRA Bill due to lack ...
Finance Standing Committee
Taxation Laws Amendment & Tax Administration Laws Amendment Bill; Rates and Monetary Amounts and Amendment of Revenue Laws Bills: voting; “Twin Peaks” Bill deliberations
22 Nov 2016
The Committee met to discuss outstanding matters on the Tax Laws Amendment Bill (TLAB) and Rates and Monetary Amounts Amendment Bill. The Financial Sector Regulation Bill was also discussed and the DA believed that the Committee could not vote on the Bill yet. The Chairperson felt that the DA was ...
NCOP Appropriations
Division of Revenue Amendment Bill [B15–2016]: public hearings
11 Nov 2016
The Standing and Select Committees on Appropriations conducted public hearings on the Division of Revenue Amendment Bill. The purpose of the Bill was to amend the Division of Revenue Act passed by Parliament in 2016.
The Rural Health Advocacy Project, in its submission, made a recommendation that the government needed ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Division of Revenue Amendment Bill [B15-2016]: National Treasury briefing
10 Nov 2016
The National Treasury briefed the Standing and Select Committees on Appropriations on the Division of Revenue Amendment Bill.
On provincial allocations, it was reported that R275.7 million would be rolled over from allocations made in 2015/16 on the provincial roads maintenance grant for KwaZulu-Natal. These funds had not been transferred ...
Finance Standing Committee
2016 Revised Fiscal Framework (MTBPS): Treasury response to public hearings
4 Nov 2016
The Standing and Select Committees on Finance met to receive National Treasury responses to questions raised during the public hearings on the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS).
Growth Forecasting
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecast for global growth had been revised down in its flagship economic forecast since 2012. ...
Finance Standing Committee
2016 Revised Fiscal Framework (MTBPS): public hearings
2 Nov 2016
There were many positive aspects in the MTBPS that the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) agreed with. The main issue was what impact the budget had on job creation as this was COSATU’s main priority. It was worried that government did not have a coherent and comprehensive job ...