NDM8898 Welsh Conservatives Debate - Taxation

NDM8898 Paul Davies (Preseli Pembrokeshire)  
To propose that the Senedd: 

1. Regrets that: 

a) Welsh pay packets are the lowest in Great Britain; 

b) business deaths continue to outpace business births; and 

c) if council tax had risen by the same rate in Wales as has been the case in England since 2010, the average Band D household in Wales would be £350 a year better off. 

2. Calls on the Welsh Government to: 

a) deliver efficiency savings, outside of health, schools and farming budgets, to deliver a 1 pence cut in the basic rate of income tax; 

b) restore business rate relief to 75 per cent for the retail hospitality and leisure sector; 

c) eliminate business rates for small businesses; and 

d) ensure local referendums for councils proposing council tax rises by over 5 per cent in a single financial year.