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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Thank you. Are there any more comments?
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
That's really helpful. Thank you very much. I want to move on to discuss more about the proposed registration process and the potential for an administrative burden from the levy on you and other providers. I just wonder what your views are on the proposal…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Thank you. Does anybody else want to comment on those points at all?
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
—your neck of the woods, which is huge, isn't it? I also read in your evidence that you support the local supply chain with around £5.5 million of goods and services from the locality as well. So, of course, the risk of the impact of this levy is not just on…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Diolch, Chair. Thank you for taking the time to be with us today; it is appreciated. I just want to pick up the point, William, that you mentioned there, in terms of the impact that you have and your business has locally in your area, and you said you employ…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
I think it's an interesting point that William just made in terms of the yield as well. We heard earlier that the leader of Cardiff Council roughly calculated that, in Cardiff, it could create a yield of £4 million, which may sound like a lot of money, but I…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Could I just follow that up—?
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Okay, that's really helpful. Thank you very much, Llŷr. And then, finally—I appreciate we are nearly running out of time, so I'd be grateful if people could stay on just a couple of minutes longer. I wonder if you could comment on how the effectiveness of the…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Okay, thank you. It's really helpful, those additional points. I'm just going to move on, and Llŷr, just from your perspective, I think in your written evidence you commented that the 31-day threshold for stays chargeable to the levy was a very high…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Diolch, Chair. I think, Mathew, you probably answered the questions I was going to ask around the particular impact on non-commercial bodies like yourselves, but I'm not sure if there's anything you wanted to add at all from your perspective on the potential…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Can I just follow that up, then? David, you touched on it earlier, about the overall tax burden on accommodation in the UK versus places like France. So, are your comments there caveated by your comments earlier that, despite it perhaps seemingly working well…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
That's one big admin burden. Thank you, Chair.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Okay. Anything else? No.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Makes sense.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Okay. Just a real brief one. I'm sorry, time is going. Of course, you have concerns about the administrative burden that the levy would place on accommodation providers. Could you just briefly outline how you think the administrative burden could be…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Yes, rather than an ad hoc approach across Wales.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
The part of that that makes sense to me is that then it would be self-policing, because you would say any property or any site within Wales who wanted to market themselves would need that registration number, whether there's a levy applied by the local…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Okay, thank you. I think Carl wants to—
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Okay. That's really helpful, thank you very much. Just coming back, Barbara, to your comments, clearly you feel very strongly about the need for appropriate registration. Do you think there's any risk of people not registering, and how should Welsh Government…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Okay. Thank you. Carl, did you want to say something?
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Thanks. Just perhaps a side question in terms of information, including registration. I'm aware that, I think it was in Edinburgh, when some registration schemes were put in place, there was also a requirement around quality, not just basic health and safety…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Thank you, Chair. I think you've all commented in your responses that additional information could be included within the register. I was just wondering, perhaps, whether you could just give examples of the types of information you think should be included…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Thanks, Chair. I guess the point you were raising earlier, Alistair, was that one-size-fits-all is not necessarily appropriate for a nation and much more for a destination, perhaps, rather than one rate across the whole of the country. I just want to touch on…
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Thanks.
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Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Thanks.
