30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Anything to add at all?
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Thank you, Chair. I'm really grateful to you for being with us this afternoon. I know that some of you have travelled a great distance to be with us and it's really appreciated. I just want to pick up a point that the Chair raised about the impact on local…
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Great, thank you. And then, finally, do you think the Bill should include a requirement for a post-implementation review?
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Thank you, Chair. I have quite specific questions, so I’ll just move on to these now. In your written evidence, you said that regulation-making powers for the Welsh Government to amend many aspects of the operation of the levy are substantial. I wonder how…
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Thanks. Does anyone else want to comment?
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Perhaps just to elaborate on that a little further, in a previous evidence session with the Welsh Revenue Authority, some of their expectations about how this levy may be enforced or monitored weren't clear for them at this stage, and perhaps that's fair…
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Thanks. Are there any comments from anybody else? No. Okay. Just moving on then, in terms of the costs that have been estimated by the Welsh Government to introduce the levy, in your evidence as the WLGA, you suggested that their estimated costs seem too low…
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Thanks for that, and thanks, Chair. Just another thought, and it's a point that Mike often raises in the Chamber here in the Senedd. Part of the way in which the RSG is distributed is based on local authorities' ability to raise council tax revenue on its…
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Okay, thanks.
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Diolch, Chair, and good morning, everybody, I appreciate you taking the time to be with us here today. I just want to pick up a point that I think you all probably touched on earlier in our discussion, in relation to the risk that Welsh Government could see…
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Okay. Thanks.
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Thanks, Chair. Just in consideration of the costs, there's clearly an important role for local authorities to play within this in terms of some of the practical support, whether it's providing intelligence or, I suspect, maybe, they'll be able to support with…
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Okay. I think it's fine to move on, Chair.
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
All right, that's useful, thank you. Finally, Chair, the Cabinet Secretary told us that he intends to amend the Bill at Stage 2 to require you to be the keeper of the register of visitor accommodation providers. Could you tell us about your work in preparing…
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Thanks. Would you expect a disproportionate increase in the cases where you will have to be more formal in these approaches? Because currently, I suspect, you're often approaching the middleman, as it were, or the representative of clients—so, in land…
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Thank you, Chair. And another specific question in relation to the Bill—paragraph 17 of the Schedule removes the requirement for you to seek approval of the tribunal before issuing a notice to a taxpayer requiring them to provide information or produce…
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Thanks. Do you feel that you have enough guidance, clarity or, when necessary, regulation around that to ensure that you're not going to be unnecessarily sharing that information?
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Thanks, Chair. And then coming to more specific points around particular sections of the Bill, so looking at paragraph 5 of the Schedule to the Bill, it inserts a new permitted disclosure of protected taxpayer information for the purposes of your functions…
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Yes, sure. Okay, Chair.
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Thanks. Perhaps another question around this non-compliance, then. Of course, the clients and transactions that you currently deal with will very, very rarely be cash based—they'll usually be digital, of some sort. There'll be significant, or at least a…
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Thanks for that. I suspect that you, perhaps, aren't going to be the ones on the ground with a clipboard, wandering around a campsite to count the number of tenants. So, who will be, at times—? I guess there may be requirements for actually being on the…
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
I guess also within that is understanding that a number of these types of clients may, as it were, be more ad hoc in terms of provision, may be less professional in terms of digital access and being used to the types of returns that may be required here. And…
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Are you confident, as an organisation, to be able to scale up in time to deal with that, because, as you say, currently, perhaps there are regularly between 500 and 1,000 clients. That could increase, as you say, with 16,500 accommodation providers in Wales…
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
Bil Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Thanks, Chair. Good morning and thanks for taking the time to be with us today. Just going back to those previous questions about your role currently with LTT and LDT, and now with this visitor levy, just help me understand the difference in scale of the…
30 Ionawr 2025 , Finance Committee
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Diolch, Chair. I declare that I'm a member of the Caravan and Motorhome Club.
