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 Vikki Howells Vikki Howells Labour 1:41, 6 December 2017

Cabinet Secretary, I was very excited to hear in the draft budget that you were considering a vacant land tax. This is a real issue in my constituency, often with small pieces of land being hoarded for decades, usually the sites of former chapels or workingmen's halls, for example, and the cost to local authorities of trying to take action being prohibitive. As well as the economic loss of land not being brought into productive use, vacant land is often kept in an unsightly and anti-social condition, and this can have an impact on the well-being of communities that is often difficult to quantify. So, how will you take this into account when you look to develop the vacant land tax idea as a workable proposition?