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Finance Standing Committee
Auditing Profession Amendment Bill, Banks Amendment Bill & Financial & Fiscal Commission Amendment Bill: National Treasury briefing
3 Feb 2015
The National Treasury briefed the Standing Committee on the Banks Amendment Bill. Urgent amendments to the Banks Act were needed to increase options for the curator to resolve a bank unable to meet its obligations. Urgency was required to extend the option to the curatorship of African Bank. The option ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Transfer Pricing and Corporate Tax: briefing by National Treasury & South African Revenue Services
19 Nov 2014
The Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources held a joint meeting with the Standing Committee on Finance to receive a briefing by the National Treasury and the South African Revenue Services (SARS) on transfer pricing and corporate tax.
The National Treasury said that South Africa ran a twin deficit and ...
Finance Standing Committee
Auditing Profession Amendment Bill: National Treasury briefing; SARS on ratification of Annexure E to Southern African Custom Union Agreement on Mutual Administrative Assistance
12 Nov 2014
National Treasury made a presentation on the Bill amending the Auditing Profession Act, 2005, focussing on the rationale behind the Amendment Bill, its principal objects and the main features of the amended sections. Fundamentally, the Amendment Bill introduced the registration and definition of candidate auditors. Its purpose was to assist ...
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 ...
Finance Standing Committee
Accounting Standards Board on its 2013/14 Annual Report; Parliamentary Budget Office on impact of investment in South Africa
29 Oct 2014
The Accounting Standards Board (ASB) briefed the Committee on its annual report, focussing on financial performance, cost containment, strategy of the ASB 2015-19 and discussed a letter dated 23 July 2014. The ASB reported that its performance was limited by its narrow mandate and demanded a review and extension of ...
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 ...
Finance Standing Committee
Financial and Fiscal Commission on its 2013/14 Annual Report
21 Oct 2014
The Standing Committee on Finance received a briefing by the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) on its Annual Report. The FFC spoke on its achievements, the challenges it faced, its recommendations to Treasury on the 2014/2015 Division of Revenue and their responses, and provided information on its performance and finances. ...
Finance Standing Committee
SA Reserve Bank on its 2013/14 Annual Report; SARS response to comments on Taxation Laws & Tax Administration Laws Amendment Draft Bills
15 Oct 2014
The Governor Designate of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) noted that this year was the first integrated report of the bank. It had been moving toward integrated reporting in line with best practice and international guidelines over the past few years. He provided SARB's views on the economy and ...
Finance Standing Committee
SARS & National Treasury on their 2013/2014 Annual Report; Audit Outcomes: AGSA briefing
14 Oct 2014
The Standing Committee on Finance heard briefings from the Auditor-General of South Africa, National Treasury and the South African Revenue Service on Treasury and SARS annual reports for 2013/14.
Department of Finance 2013/2014 Audit Outcomes: AGSA briefing
The Auditor-General of South Africa said that the Department had received an unqualified ...
Finance Standing Committee
Medium Term Strategic Framework: briefing; DBSA Amendment Bill: voting; Budgetary Review & Recommendations Report: briefing
17 Sep 2014
The Committee met and adopted the DBSA Amendment Bill [B2-2014] Committee report and the DBSA Amendment Bill [B2-2014] as well as heard briefings from the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) on the Medium Term Strategic Framework (MTSF) and the Parliamentary Researcher on the Budgetary Review Recommendation Report (BRRR).
The Parliamentary Budget ...