Sentences with phrase «welsh business rates»

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Former Welsh Secretary Peter Hain is urging the Welsh Government to hand over revenue from business rates to new city regions to help transform the economy of Wales.

Control over business rates is partially devolved but is expected to be transferred to the Welsh Government in full through the Wales Bill currently being considered by Parliament.

There is now no barrier to the Welsh Government reforming the business rates system to support small firms on high streets across Wales.

When business rates are devolved to the Assembly as part of the new Wales Bill, the Welsh Government should look at the possibility of giving full control over revenue to new city and county regions.

Speaking in First Minister's Questions, Kirsty Williams highlighted the Welsh Liberal Democrat proposal to scrap business rates for plant and machinery which would benefit the economy as businesses would no longer be penalised for investing further in Wales.

The Welsh Conservatives have repeated their pledge from 2013 that they'd cut the 40p rate for higher earners by 5p in order to encourage businesses to grow.

«She was also present around the Cabinet table when her Welsh Government re-valued business rates, forcing many small businesses in Ceredigion to pay sky high rates that are forcing many out of business entirely.»

Plans recently launched by the Welsh Liberal Democrats to cut business rates on new plant and machinery would be a welcome boost to Wales» struggling steel industry, the party has said today.

Kirsty Williams, Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, today urged the First Minister to support her party's calls to scrap business rates for plant and machinery in Wales and to reduce the level of VAT that is levied on the tourism industry.

«For years the Welsh Liberal Democrats have called for business rates to be reduced to support the steel industry, yet the Labour Government has sat on its hands offering nothing.

The Welsh Lib Dems have been calling for several years for business rates on factories like the Tata steelworks to be scrapped.

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«The steel industry has repeatedly asked the Welsh Government to cut business rates, but it has refused to do so.

Also at first minister's questions, Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said Labour had failed to nurture the private sector, pointing to a declining rate of business start ups.