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NCOP Finance
Taxation Laws Amendment Bill [B29B-15]; Tax Administration Laws Amendment Bill [B30-15]: briefing & adoption; Committee Report on Limpopo oversight visit
27 Nov 2015
The Committee heard a joint presentation from National Treasury and the South African Revenue Service on the Taxation Laws Amendment Bill [B29B-2015] and the Tax Administration Laws Amendment Bill [B30-2015]. The presentation dealt with changes to the law in the areas of general business taxes, taxation of financial institutions and ...
NCOP Appropriations
Adjustments Appropriation Bill [B28-15], Finance Bill [B31-15], New Development Bank Special Appropriations Bill [B32-15]: adoption
26 Nov 2015
The Committee adopted the Adjustments Appropriation Bill, the Finance Bill and the New Development Bank Special Appropriations Bill.
The Democratic Alliance presented a submission on the DA's position on the Adjustments Appropriation Bill. It detailed various budget items within the budget votes of departments which the DA believed could have ...
NCOP Appropriations
Adjustments Appropriation Bill[B28-15]; Finance Bill [B31-15]; and New Development Bank Special Appropriations Bill [B32-15]: consideration; Proposed division of revenue and conditional grant allocations to provinces and local government: consideration
25 Nov 2015
The National Treasury briefed the Committee on the New Development Bank Appropriation Bill. The New Development Bank (the Bank) is a multilateral development bank,whose members in the first instance will be the BRICS countries as equal partners, with the purpose of mobilising alternative sources of financing, in the form of ...
NCOP Appropriations
Division of Revenue Amendment Bill: final mandates; Committee Report on Division of Revenue Amendment Bill
24 Nov 2015
The Committee had held a meeting on 17 November and two matters were raised that necessitated the need to obtain legal opinion. These were: whether the Select Committee may consider a Bill and the negotiating mandates from Provincial Legislatures prior to the National Assembly passing the Bill which it only ...
NCOP Appropriations
Division of Revenue Amendment Bill [B27-2015]: final Mandates: Decision deferred
18 Nov 2015
The Committee met to consider the final mandates on the 2015 Division of Revenue Amendment Bill from Provinces. The Parliamentary Legal Advisers were present to give guidance to Members. The Committee Secretary announced that six final mandates had been presented, and of those, five were in favour of the Bill. ...
NCOP Appropriations
Division of Revenue Amendment Bill [B27-15]: negotiating mandates
17 Nov 2015
The Committee met to hear the negotiating mandates presented by the provinces on the 2015 Division of Revenue Bill (DORB). Members discussed at length whether or not it was procedurally correct for the Committee to hear negotiating mandates at this meeting, because the National Assembly (NA) would only be dealing ...
Science and Technology
South African National Space Agency (SANSA) & Human Science Research Council (HSRC) on their 2014 priorities
29 Jul 2014
The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) presented during the afternoon session of the all-day meeting on 30 July 2014.
SANSA presented its programmes, 2014/15 priorities and deliverables, financials, and key performance indicators. Its mandate was the promotion and use of space, foster ...