It was an interesting day at the Standing Committee on Finance (SCOF) on 21 November, with SCOF not accepting Treasury’s proposal to move the two-pot implementation date from 1 March 2024 to 1 March 2025 and retaining the 1 March 2024 date.
This decision is still not final. It will go to the Minister of Finance for 14 days for comment. The Minister of Finance does not have the power to make a different decision. Then the Bill (including the date) will go back to SCOF for a final decision. The Bill will also need to pass through the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces.
We still do not know when we will see the final version of the two-pot legislation (Revenue Laws Amendment Bill) and we still do not know when we will see the final version of the Bill which contains the changes to the Pension Fund Act necessary to implement the two-pot system.
All Treasury’s other proposals (barring the date) were accepted by SCOF. We discussed these changes in a previous publication, for example:
Other discussions at SCOF on 21 November, included:
The 1 March 2024 implementation date decision is not yet final. The Income Tax Act and Pension Funds Act amendments for the two-pot system have not been finalised. Uncertainty still prevails. This makes preparation for administrators, funds, and others fraught with difficulty, uncertainty, and risk. In addition, the very necessary communication required about the two-pot system cannot be finalised.
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