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Corporate Resources Overview & Scrutiny Committee. Scrutiny committees question decisions and can recommend changes. They don't make the decision.
Welsh Government consultation on business rate avoidance
The Committee's comments on the Council's proposed response are to be referred to Cabinet. The Committee also recognised that, if the proposals are enacted, they would add to the Revenues service's workload. It said this would invite a revenue bid, which is a request for money from the day-to-day budget, once the outcome is known.
Cabinet. The Cabinet makes most of the council's decisions.
Business rates avoidance: Welsh Government consultation
Cabinet deferred the report to its meeting on 15 July 2025, so it will consider it alongside further Welsh Government proposals.
Cabinet. The Cabinet makes most of the council's decisions.
Welsh Government Consultation - proposals to counteract known methods of business rates avoidance
RESOLVED: (a) That feedback from Corporate Resources Overview and Scrutiny Committee be considered, and consider a response to the Welsh Government proposals to tackle business rate avoidance, and which is set out in the proposed response to Welsh Governments consultation, as drafted by senior officers; and (b) That subject to the consultation proposals going ahead, Cabinet support the recruitment, through a revenue bid, of an additional full time, permanent 1 FTE Revenue Officer from 2026/27 to strengthen resources to combat business rate avoidance cases and to administer the new penalty an…
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