<p>The Devolution of Taxes</p>

Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:17 pm on 21 June 2016.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 2:17, 21 June 2016

Well, I didn’t hear him advocate a referendum in Scotland for the transfer of far greater powers in Scotland, but my view is this: the UK’s tax system needs to be re-examined with, for example, a system where there is an element of the taxation system that provides the means to redistribute money across the UK to where it’s needed, while at the same time ensuring local accountability. We have it of a fashion with council tax. We have it of a fashion with community councils. It’s quite normal in most countries for there to be an element of locally raised income tax. We shouldn’t be afraid of that in Wales. But certainly I wouldn’t be an advocate of having a wholly self-contained taxation system in Wales. I don’t think that would be in Wales’s financial interest.