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Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Parliament 1 Quarter 2016/17 performance & 2017/18 draft budget and annual performance plan
19 Oct 2016
Report of the meeting to follow.
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Auditor-General of South Africa 2015/16 Audit Report; Parliament’s 2015/16 Annual Report Analysis: Committee’s Researchers
12 Oct 2016
The Auditor-General of South Africa briefed the Committee about the audit findings of Parliament’s Annual Report for 2015/16, and reported that Parliament had been operating on a deficit of over R110 million, while its vacancy rate was standing at 19.6%, which translated to 336 vacant positions.
The financial statements submitted ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Committee Report on Parliament’s 2015/16 Annual Report; Engagement with a delegation from Assembly of Republic Mozambique’s Board of Administration
12 Oct 2016
During the period under review, the RSA Parliament spent R1.6 million on flowers and antiques, bought a new fleet of vehicles which it could not satisfactorily account for, and staff members owe the institution R19 million while retired executive members were given 48 business class plane tickets.
All these surfaced ...
NCOP Finance
Committee Report on Provincial Treasuries 3 & 4 Quarter 2015/16 performance
11 Oct 2016
The Members of the Select Committee on Finance met to discuss the draft report on the provincial treasuries’ expenditure review for the third and fourth quarter of the 2015/2016 financial year. The draft report was unanimously adopted, with minor technical errors suggested for correction. The recommendations were also dealt with, ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Mandate, Function and Powers of Committee: briefing; Committee Programme
23 Sep 2016
The Committee expressed concern at the absence of the Secretary to Parliament, as an accounting officer, from the meeting to discuss its mandate, functions and powers. This would prevent them from seeking guidance and clarification on the issues involved. Several Members called for the meeting to be postponed, but after ...
Finance Standing Committee
Taxation Laws Amendment & Tax Administration Laws Amendment Bill: response to submissions; Revenue Laws Amendment Bill: update
21 Sep 2016
Introduction
The Chairperson noted his dissatisfaction with comments made by Mr D Maynier (DA) to the effect that the Financial Services Board and South African Revenue Service were being summonsed before the Committee. The Chairperson emphasised that regardless of Mr Maynier being a shadow Minister he had no more status ...
NCOP Appropriations
Municipal Infrastructure Grant monitoring and rollover management
20 Sep 2016
The briefing by the Department of Cooperative Governance (DCoG) covered expenditure performance of the Municipal Infrastructure Grant (MIG) in 2015/16; monitoring of expenditure of rollovers, and mitigation of challenges. Municipalities in North West province had an unspent balance of R238 million in June 2016. The figure for Limopo province was ...
NCOP Finance
Rates & Monetary Amounts & Amendment of Revenue Laws Bill; United Arab Emirates & Singapore Double Taxation Agreements
7 Sep 2016
National Treasury briefed the Committee on the Draft Rates and Monetary Amounts and Amendment of Revenue Laws Bills. The presentation highlighted the tax revenue trends and 2015/16 revenue outcomes. Included in the draft bills was the tax proposals on PIT (personal income tax) particularly the partial fiscal drag relief – ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2017/18 Division of Revenue: Financial and Fiscal Commission Submission
6 Sep 2016
The theme of the 2017/18 FFC submission was the intergovernmental fiscal relations system and rural development. The majority of the South African poor were living in rural areas, which lagged behind on economic performance indicators. The rural economy was no longer just a farm economy. The potential of land reform ...
Finance Standing Committee
Taxation Laws Amendment & Tax Administration Laws Amendment Bill: briefing
24 Aug 2016
National Treasury briefed the Committee on the contents of the 2016 Taxation Laws Amendment Bill and Tax Administration Laws Amendment Bill. The contents highlighted included: