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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): 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 ...
Finance Standing Committee
2016 MTBPS: Parliamentary Budget Office briefing
1 Nov 2016
The PBO presented its MTBPS analysis to the four Committees. It gave members highlights from the Ministers MTBPS speech and some highlights included stabilising debt as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), stimulating growth, increasing revenue growth and creating more government efficiency. PBO gave an outline of reprioritisation to ...
Defence
SANDF transformation: DOD briefing; President’s letter on SANDF deployment
28 Oct 2016
The Committee received a briefing from the Department of Defence (DOD) on transformation within the South African National Defence Force (SANDF).
Major-General Olga Nodola, Chief Director: Transformation Management, South African National Defence Force (SANDF) said that transformation within the military went beyond gender, race, and disability, but also included transformation ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Medium Term Budget Policy Statement 2016: Minister of Finance and National Treasury briefings
27 Oct 2016
Documents Handed Out:
Medium Term Budget Policy Statement: National Treasury presentation [awaited]
The National Treasury and the Minister of Finance briefed the Committee with a full and detailed presentation on the main messages of the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS). This emphasised the trying economic environment in which the ...
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 ...
Defence
Defence Force Service Commission; Military Ombud; Department of Defence on MSDS Intake
9 Sep 2016
Relevant documents:
Media statement on statistics of case released by Military Ombud Lt Gen (Ret) Temba Matanzima
Annexure
The Defence Force Service Commission reported that the main challenge was lack of funding in relation to the Defence Review, as well as the limited power of the Commission.
The essence of ...
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 – ...