<p>Group 2: Tax Rates and Bands (Amendments 38, 39, 33, 40, 41, 42)</p>

Part of 11. 9. Debate: Stage 3 of the Land Transaction Tax and Anti-avoidance of Devolved Taxes (Wales) Bill – in the Senedd at 4:31 pm on 28 March 2017.

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Photo of Nick Ramsay Nick Ramsay Conservative 4:31, 28 March 2017

Thank you for taking my intervention. I think the Cabinet Secretary is being a little bit mischievous there, perhaps with some Plaid Cymru collusion that neither the Member of the lead amendment or me were aware of earlier. But, no, that is certainly not the intention. As the Cabinet Secretary has said himself, the intention is for these taxes not to come into force until April 2019. So, our request that tax rates should be available in advance of that and there should be certainty is not about handing powers back to the body from which they came, it's about certainty. But I understand where you're coming from with the compromise of a date, Cabinet Secretary, and I accept that. Will you, at least, in the future consider a finance Bill so that we can discuss these fiscal issues in this Chamber a lot more effectively than we do at the moment?