Welsh taxes

Sam RowlandsConservative

30 January 2025, Finance Committee

Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4

…to provide information or produce documents. This changed rule will apply to both the visitor levy and devolved taxes. What impact do you expect this to have on your approach to requiring taxpayer information?

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Rebecca Godfrey

30 January 2025, Finance Committee

Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4

I do, and I think that one of the main things that we’ve got in the WRA is a really good culture around information security. And the seriousness with which the operational staff and all of our staff deal with protected taxpayer information is very, very strong and I feel that that is almost better…

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Anthony Pritchard

30 January 2025, Finance Committee

Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4

Yes. Within land transaction tax, there are around 60,000 transactions. There are around about 5,000 registered users, but there are probably between 500 and 1,000 active users, as in regular users. Those 5,000 are quite ad hoc. The visitor levy is going be different. Obviously, as Dyfed said, it…

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Sam RowlandsConservative

30 January 2025, Finance Committee

Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4

…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 number of clients that you currently deal with versus the number of clients you may be dealing…

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Anthony Pritchard

30 January 2025, Finance Committee

Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4

…stop that. I think that multifactor authentication stops that, and we’ve already implemented that with LTT; we’ve found that quite successful. So, that's our general approach and it seems to work quite well.

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Dyfed Alsop

30 January 2025, Finance Committee

Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4

…because there are similarities from an administrative perspective with regard to LDT and with regard to LTT. So, on the LDT side, obviously, there are fewer taxpayers than there will be with the visitor levy, clearly, but it's through an agent, if you like, so, the accommodation provider is…

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Mike HedgesLabour

30 January 2025, Finance Committee

Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4

I mean, you're experienced in collecting money, with land transaction tax and the landfill disposals tax, for example. Will the processes be very similar to that for collecting the levy?

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Dyfed Alsop

30 January 2025, Finance Committee

Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4

…Rebecca to cover that specific point, but, if I just draw on experience from what we've been doing on LTT, one of the things about that is that, yes, it's true that we work predominantly in terms of the initial payment with solicitors. But, actually, one of the things that we didn't know about when…

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Dyfed Alsop

30 January 2025, Finance Committee

Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4

Yes. Thank you. So, I suppose the thing that we have most learned from our experience of seven years of collecting the devolved taxes is we feel that the approach that we have developed to working closely with taxpayers and what we call our approach, a Welsh way of doing things, has been really…

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Peredur Owen GriffithsPlaid

30 January 2025, Finance Committee

Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4

You're responsible for LTT and LDT—land transaction tax and landfill disposals tax—and you administer those taxes on behalf of the Welsh Government. What have you been able to learn from those experiences in developing the process to collect and manage the visitor levy, and where are the challenges…

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Peredur Owen GriffithsPlaid

30 January 2025, Finance Committee

Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4

…to cover, so brevity is the word of the day today, I think. So, I wanted to start by exploring the WRA's functions outlined in the Bill, and I'll bring in Members on that. But I'd like to start with understanding what your engagement has been with Welsh Government during the development of the Bill…

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Anthony Pritchard

30 January 2025, Finance Committee

Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4

Anthony Pritchard. I'm the chief digital officer for Welsh Revenue Authority.

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