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Trade, Industry and Competition
Engagement with National Lotteries Board (NLB) & Distributing Agencies on current status of its distributing activities in their respective sectors
5 Jun 2015
A delegation from the National Lotteries Board (NLB) delivered a presentation to the Committee on its distributing activities. Following the Lotteries Amendment Act, which had been promulgated in April 2015, the activities of the NLB would change in five main ways:
Trade, Industry and Competition
Remote Gambling Bill [PMB3-2015]: hearings
3 Jun 2015
The Committee conducted hearings on the Remote Gambling Bill and heard from various stakholders and interested persons.
The Banking Association of South Africa (BASA) was essentially agnostic on whether online gambling should be regulated or not and it was a decision for government to make. In 2011 there were views ...
Finance Standing Committee
Base Erosion and Profit Sharing (BEPS) Report: Parliamentary Budget Office briefing
20 May 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry, the Standing Committee on Finance and the Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources held a joint meeting to discuss a research paper presented by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) on Base Erosion and Profit Sharing (BEPS). The joint meeting was led by the Chairperson ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Sugar Association regarding alternative energy sources briefing; Committee Reports on Transfer Pricing & Trade and Industry Budget
13 May 2015
Formal consideration of the Committee’s report on Budget Vote 34: Trade and Industry
Recommendations for the Committee’s report on Budget Vote 34 focused mainly on the proposed Black Industrialist Development Programme and the opposing views Members had in curbing the illegal activities and non-compliance in the scrap metals industry. DTI ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Space Affairs Act: Proposed Amendments: SA Council for Space Affairs briefing; Budget Report deliberations
12 May 2015
The South African Council for Space Affairs (SACSA) gave a briefing on the review of the Space Affairs Act, which currently governed space affairs in South Africa. The Act was passed in 1993 and amended in 1995. There had been significant developments since then in the national space arena, including ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Committee Report on Trade and Industry Budget Vote & Transfer Pricing
30 Apr 2015
Members of the Committee considered the first draft of the Committee Report (the Report) on the budget vote and deliberated upon it extensively. Major areas of the discussion included the following:
-The strategic and annual performance plans of entities relating to the Department.
-The content of the nine point plan, ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Transfer Pricing Public Hearings: Submissions from Department of Trade and Industry, Alternative Information Development Centre, SA Mining Development Centre, Mr F Shivambu and Prof B Turok briefings
29 Apr 2015
The Committee continued with public hearings on transfer pricing, taking presentations from a number of institutions and individuals.
Mr F Shivambu, Prof. B Turok and representatives from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the ; the South African Mining Development Association (SAMDA) gave inputs on Transfer Pricing to the ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Tobacco Institute of South Africa & Chevron South Africa briefings on industry challenges & transformation
24 Apr 2015
The Tobacco Institute of South Africa and Chevron South Africa presented various issues pertaining to the tobacco and the petroleum industries within a changing economic climate in South Africa.
Tobacco Institute of South Africa (TISA) spoke about the trade in illicit cigarettes within South Africa; transformation efforts within the domestic ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Transfer pricing: hearing
22 Apr 2015
The Davis Tax Committee, said about three years ago, the South African Revenue Services (SARS) did a very aggressive investigation into transfer pricing and collected R1.1 billion for just that one financial year. This indicated that there was a considerable “haemorrhaging of money”. It was not only companies that were ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications & Companies Tribunal on their Strategic and Annual Performance Plans
21 Apr 2015
The National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS) strategy focus was on source inspections and to lock out non-compliant products before the products entered point of trade and ensure that NRCS was more efficient in regulating the market. Retail and distributor inspections were meant for intelligence gathering and to identify non-compliant ...