Local taxes for second homes and self-catering accommodation
Q1. How effective has the use of premiums been in addressing housing issues?
Q2. How could local authorities’ best use the premiums to help bring empty or underused properties back into use to improve housing supply and the sustainability of local communities?
Q3. Do you have views on how funds raised from the premium should be used? For example, should local authorities be required to be more transparent about how funds raised from the premium have been spent?
Q4. Is the current maximum premium of 100% appropriate? If not, what would you consider to be appropriate and fair?
Q5. If a higher maximum premium were proposed, should this be introduced incrementally?
Q6. What do you see as the impacts, both positive and negative, of self-catering accommodation?
Q7. What are your views on the current criteria and thresholds for defining property as self-catering accommodation and liable for non-domestic rates?
Q8. Do you think the self-catering accommodation thresholds should be changed and, if so, why?
Q9. If the self-catering thresholds were to be changed, what do you suggest the new thresholds should be?
Q10. What are your views on the eligibility of self-catering accommodation for Small Business Rates Relief?
Q11. Are there other ways in which you think the local tax system could be used to the support the sustainability of our communities?
Q12. We would like to know your views on the effects that these proposals would have on the Welsh language, specifically on opportunities for people to use Welsh and on treating the Welsh language no less favourably than English.
What effects do you think there would be? How could positive effects be increased, or negative effects be mitigated?
Q13. Please also explain how you believe the proposed policy approach could be formulated or changed so as to have positive effects or increased positive effects on opportunities for people to use the Welsh language and on treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language, and no adverse effects on opportunities for people to use the Welsh language and on treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language.
Q14. We have asked a number of specific questions. If you have any related points which we have not specifically addressed, please use this space to record them.