Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 1:40 pm on 3 April 2019.

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Photo of Rebecca Evans Rebecca Evans Labour 1:40, 3 April 2019

Thank you for raising this important issue, especially in what is a momentous week for tax in Wales. I was certainly pleased to receive the FSB's report, and I was pleased to invite them to give a presentation at the recent tax advisory group in terms of helping us understand from their perspective and the perspective of their members how they best can work alongside Welsh Government and the Welsh Revenue Authority. In terms of who's right, I think actually they're probably both right, in the sense that the FSB report came out in August, so that was before—or the research was done in August—a lot of the engagement and communication work was undertaken, and, actually, the FSB's research does reflect the kind of research that Welsh Government has done in terms of understanding the level of awareness and understanding that is out there in the Welsh public in terms of taxes. I think that that report does provide us with a really good baseline on which to work now, in terms of driving forward our communication work to help people understand Welsh taxes better. Also, we need to do some further work, I think, on local taxes. But certainly the Welsh Revenue Authority has been doing some absolutely excellent and intensive work in order to communicate.