New Taxes

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 2:16 pm on 25 October 2017.

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Photo of Mr Neil Hamilton Mr Neil Hamilton UKIP 2:16, 25 October 2017

To follow up that question—I understand that the finance Secretary is obviously not going to be able to rule in our out any of these taxes at the moment—will he bear in mind, in making up his mind, the report of the World Economic Forum on travel, which ranks the United Kingdom 140 out of 141 countries in the world for cost competitiveness in the tourism industry? Only one country in the world has higher tourist taxes than us already, if you include things like air passenger duty and VAT, and maintaining the competitiveness of the Welsh economy, particularly for international tourism, ought to be one of the important principles underlying any decisions on taxes the Welsh Government makes.