6. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Land transaction tax on commercial land

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:51 pm on 9 May 2018.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 5:51, 9 May 2018

Had those been the points that the Member wished to concentrate on in this debate, he could have put them in the motion; he didn't. Instead, he put something else in on which he has been found out, and no amount of standing up here and spraying a set of other accusations around the room will detract from the point that his motion is defective; he knows it is, he's been found out in doing so. And the accusation is a serious one. Let's be clear about this: if it were true that a Welsh Government had deliberately set out to avoid tax, that is not—