The Welsh Government's Proposed New Taxes

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance – in the Senedd at 1:41 pm on 6 December 2017.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 1:41, 6 December 2017

It is, of course, as Simon Thomas says, a very important area and the one, as I said to Suzy Davies, that has had the greatest interest from members of the public, and Simon Thomas is quite right to point out that different taxes have different policy objectives behind them. A plastics Act is about influencing people's behaviour, other taxes are more interested in raising revenue. Not all taxes have the same motivation behind them and that's part of what we will need to weigh up when we come to make a final selection of the tax—that we will test out the machinery of the Wales Act by sending into that new machinery.