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16 February 2022Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
It was a musical interlude, anyway.
16 February 2022Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Andrew, I think you need to go on mute. [Laughter.]
16 February 2022Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Thank you. Peter.
16 February 2022Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
I'm assuming that, as part of the scrutiny process then, the consequences would be part of what we would be looking at before we approved those regulations, and that would be something that this committee would be involved with.
16 February 2022Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Not the changes, as such, but, if there was a case where you'd made a mistake or a tax had been changed and then you had to roll it back, have you given any thought to how much that would affect—? Because the taxpayer wouldn't be penalised. They'd get their…
16 February 2022Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Have you quantified any of that? Have you thought through any of the financial impacts you mention there about—? Have you scenarioed it out? Have you worked out, if something did happen, what the clawback mechanism would be and how much it would actually cost?
16 February 2022Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Okay, thank you. Sorry, Rhianon, for cutting across there.
16 February 2022Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
So, the appropriateness element, and I think you touched on it in your answer around people potentially being adversely affected, or other groups, could potentially be used in the other way as well. So, it could be used badly as well as for good, if you like…
16 February 2022Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
So, if the Minister thought—not you in particular—something would be 'appropriate', and I might not think it 'appropriate' but 'necessary', because it's proven under that definition of the higher bar as 'necessary', would that be a better—?
16 February 2022Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
—'necessary or appropriate', so you could ignore the 'necessary' and go to the 'appropriate', if you thought it was 'appropriate'.
16 February 2022Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
But it says—
16 February 2022Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Sorry, Rhianon—am I able to ask just a quick supplementary there? We talked earlier, and in your answer there, around 'appropriate or necessary' or 'necessary or appropriate'. Would it be strengthened by going 'necessary and appropriate'?
16 February 2022Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Thank you. I'll come back to Rhianon to ask some more questions. Thank you.
16 February 2022Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Sorry, Rhianon, I think Mike would like to come in on that point, just for a second.
16 February 2022Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
That's okay. [Laughter.]
16 February 2022Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Sorry, I think Andrew wants to come in. Sorry, Rhianon.
16 February 2022Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
So, there'd be no—. You wouldn't use any of these powers to change anything to do with the WRA.
16 February 2022Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Okay, thank you. I'll bring Rhianon in now, if I may.
16 February 2022Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Okay. Thank you for that. I'm just going to move on to one more question, and then I'll bring Rhianon in. We're wanting to understand a little bit around what we were just touching upon there with the general anti-avoidance rules and that element. The…
16 February 2022Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Breaking the law.
16 February 2022Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Professor Emyr Lewis told us that the Senedd lock could work in the context of the Bill and would ensure the primacy of the Senedd. I think it's something that Peter was talking about. As the legislature, it would mean the Senedd deciding when the powers…
16 February 2022Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Peter, did you want to come in?
16 February 2022Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Thank you. Witnesses did feel that the Senedd lock that was originally proposed in the consultation document would improve scrutiny and serve as a safeguard against abuse of the powers proposed by the Bill. Do you think that this is a valid observation?
16 February 2022Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Minister, you drew our attention in a previous session to the UK Government's use of resolutions under the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1968 as an example of making changes to law quickly, but that involves a resolution of the House of Commons as…
16 February 2022Finance Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill: Evidence session 6
Mike.