The three day conference is focusing on the systems of intergovernmental relations and revenue sharing both in South Africa and other countries on the continent, such as Sudan, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In their presentation Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) experts Margaret Chitiga, Annette Verryn and Jaya Josi argued that there were still major shortcomings in South Africa’s system and said reforms were needed. While provincial governments and municipalities had formal responsibilities over major categories of spending and accounted for more than half of government spending, including basic services, health and education they had few powers to raise their own revenue. The system was fiscally unbalanced as much of the national tax revenues available for equitable sharing were raised by national government.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 14:33:17 +0000
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