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Finance Standing Committee
2015 Budget: Minister of Finance briefing
26 Feb 2015
The Minister of Finance and a team of senior delegates from the National Treasury presented a summary of the presentation of the 2015 Budget to the joint meeting of the Select Committees on Finance and Appropriations and the Standing Committees on Finance and Appropriations. Members kept their questions short and ...
NCOP Appropriations
Conditional grants expenditure in 2014: overview and analysis
17 Feb 2015
The Committee Content Adviser and the Researcher provided the Committee with an overview of Schedule 4, 5, 6 and 7 conditional grant expenditure.
- A Schedule 4 grant was an allocation to provinces to supplement the funding of programmes or functions funded from provincial budgets. Expenditure of Schedule 4 grants ...
NCOP Appropriations
Adjustment Appropriations Bill: Committee Report adoption; Division of Revenue and Conditional Grant Allocations to Provinces & Local Government; 2014 Committee activities
26 Nov 2014
The Standing Committee on Appropriations considered, and adopted, draft Committee Reports on the approval of the Adjustment Appropriation Bill, the proposed Division of Revenue and Conditional Grant Allocations to provinces, the Committee's report on its activities from June to December 2014, and the draft Committee programme for the first term ...
NCOP Finance
Taxation Laws Amendment Bill, Tax Administration Laws Amendment, Rates & Monetary Amounts and Amendment of Revenue Laws Bill: briefing
19 Nov 2014
Rates and Monetary Amounts Bill
The majority of South Africans (8.8 million) earned less than R70 000 per year and the other 6.4 million people were spread over income brackets higher than that. The estimated income for this year was R335.9 billion and a significant part of that income was paid ...
NCOP Appropriations
2014 Division of Revenue Amendment Bill [B11-2014]: final mandates
18 Nov 2014
The Committee considered final mandates from the provinces on the 2014 Division of Revenue Amendment Bill. Eight provinces - Eastern Cape, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape, North West and the Western Cape - all voted in favour of the Bill. The Free State was the only province whose final ...
NCOP Appropriations
2014 Division of Revenue Bill: negotiating mandates
11 Nov 2014
The Committee considered negotiating mandates from provinces on the 2014 Division of Revenue Bill. Support for the Bill was unanimous amongst the nine provinces. There were however some provinces which had made some recommendations. For example The Northern Cape Province had noted that no additional funding to provinces had been ...
NCOP Appropriations
Division of Revenue Amendment Bill for 2015/16: public hearings
7 Nov 2014
The South African Local Government Association (SALGA) commented on the Division of Revenue Bill (DoRB), saying it is in everyone’s interest within the context of the tight fiscal space to ensure that local government is properly resourced and capacitated to meet its developmental challenges. While not all items that SALGA ...
Finance Standing Committee
Revised Fiscal Framework : Consideration and Adoption of Committee Report
30 Oct 2014
The Standing Committee on Finance and the Select Committee on Finance met to consider and adopt the of Committee Report on the Revised Fiscal Framework. Members debated the phraseology of some sections of the report and debated whether the report was an accurate reflection of what other input had been ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2014 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement: Financial and Fiscal Commission & Parliamentary Budget Office briefings
29 Oct 2014
The Joint Meeting of the Standing and Select Committees on Appropriations heard briefings from the Financial and Fiscal Commission and the Parliamentary Budget Office on the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) 2014.
The Financial and Fiscal Commission gave an overall assessment of the MTBPS. It covered the consolidated fiscal ...
Finance Standing Committee
Revised Fiscal Framework: public hearings
28 Oct 2014
A joint meeting of the Standing and Select Committees on Finance heard briefings from the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC), the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), and the SA Reserve Bank (SARB) on the revised fiscal framework.
The Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) presentation gave an overview of the Medium Term ...