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NCOP Finance
Taking Parliament to the People: Committee Researcher's Analysis; Follow up on Western Cape financial issues considered during earlier oversight: Provincial Treasury briefing
4 Nov 2015
The Select Committee on Finance noted that the MEC for Finance, Western Cape, had responded to concerns that were discussed previously, and had submitted a full response to the House Chairperson. Fourteen matters of concern were addressed in that letter. It was noted that the Select Committee on Finance, together ...
Finance Standing Committee
2015 Revised Fiscal Framework Report (MTBPS): consideration
3 Nov 2015
The DA submitted that a number of core issues were not included in the observations and recommendations. These included concern over the rate of economic growth; changed policies for growth; expenditure; a lack of long-term fiscal guidelines; cost containment measures; the contingency reserve; debt levels; fiscal risks and the Public ...
Finance Standing Committee
Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) 2015: Parliamentary Budget Office review
27 Oct 2015
The Parliamentary Budget Office provided an analysis of the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement for 2015 to a joint meeting attended by the Standing and Select Committees on Appropriations and the Standing and Select Committees on Finance.
The Parliamentary Budget Office generally echoed the concerns contained in National Treasury’s budget policy ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Division of Revenue Amendment Bill [B27-2015]; Adjustment Appropriation Bill [B28-2015]: briefing
23 Oct 2015
Awaited documents: Draft Report on 2015 Adjustment Budget; Draft Report on 2015 Division of Revenue Amendment Bill[available once published on the ATC]
National Treasury met with both the Standing Committee and the Select Committee on Appropriations to brief them on the Adjustment Budget for 2015 as contained in the two Bills. ...
Finance Standing Committee
Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) 2015: Minister of Finance briefing
22 Oct 2015
The Minister of Finance and a delegation from the National Treasury met with a joint committee comprising the Standing Committee on Finance, the Select Committee on Finance, the Standing Committee on Appropriations and the Select Committee on Appropriations. The National Treasury presented the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), which ...
NCOP Finance
Turks and Caicos Islands; Brazil; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Uruguay; Zimbabwe tax agreements; Committee Reports on Provincial Treasuries & Kwa-Zulu Natal oversight
14 Oct 2015
The Select Committee on Finance was briefed on the amended Tax Treaty with Zimbabwe by National Treasury. The South African Revenue Service (SARS) conducted a briefing on five international agreements with Brazil, Turks and Caicos Islands, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Uruguay which aimed to remove barriers to cross-border trade ...
NCOP Appropriations
Committee Reports on KwaZulu-Natal and Limpopo Oversight Visits
13 Oct 2015
Report of the meeting to follow.
Ad Hoc Joint Committee on Probing Violence Against Foreign Nationals
Committee Report on Probing Violence Against Foreign Nationals: consideration postponed due to lack of quorum
22 Sep 2015
The Ad Hoc Committee on Probing Violence against Foreign Nationals could not adopt its Draft Report on violence against foreigners because there was no quorum. For the Committee to adopt the report, it needed 6 members from both the National Assembly and National Council of Provinces. In the Committee there ...
NCOP Finance
SARS & Financial and Fiscal Commission 2015/16 Annual Performance & Strategic Plans; Committee Reports
22 Sep 2015
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) presented on the 2015/16 to 2019/20 Strategic Plan and the 2015/16 Annual Performance Plan. SARS would continue to invest in employees to serve taxpayers and to address sophisticated tax avoidance and evasion. To increase customs compliance, SARS would improve the management of bonded warehouses ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Processing of Legacy Submissions
4 Sep 2015
The Joint Committee met to deliberate on the way forward with legacy public submissions for Constitutional Amendments from 2013. The issue of the Sesotho sa Leboa language also arose, but discussion of the matter was postponed. The Committee Researcher summarised each of the 13 proposed amendments. Amendments were presented within ...