Second Home Owners

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 1:38 pm on 22 May 2019.

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Photo of Siân Gwenllian Siân Gwenllian Plaid Cymru 1:38, 22 May 2019

(Translated)

You will be aware that nine Welsh councils have suggested a simple solution to the increasing problem of second homes being exempted from paying any sort of tax whatsoever into the public purse. They argue that the Welsh Government has the powers to adapt section 66 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 through secondary legislation. Now, fundamentally, we need to remove the current criteria, as set out in section 66, related to self-catering units, and replace it with a principle that every property that is used as a domestic property should remain as a domestic property, whatever its use. Do you agree that we need to amend this legislation, and will your Government proceed immediately to doing so?