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Peter Black and South Wales West Liberal DemocratsRepresenting Aberavon, Bridgend, Gower, Neath, Ogmore, Port Talbot, and Swansea |
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Have Plaid ditched election pledge on council tax?
September 19, 2007 12:00 AM
Campaigning for a local income tax
Welsh Liberal Democrats social justice spokesperson Peter Black will put the pressure on Plaid Cymru this afternoon - asking whether they've sold out one of their core policies for a place in government.
In their opposition debate on council tax, Welsh Liberal Democrats will ask whether Plaid have given up on replacing council tax with a local income tax.
Peter Black said: "Plaid Cymru have a choice today. Do they support our Welsh Liberal Democrat motion to axe the tax and replace it with a fairer system based on ability to pay? Or will they defend the Tory Tax, introduced by John Major and perpetuated by Labour for a decade?
"PC appear to have abandoned their principles the moment they signed the One Wales Document.
"Their longstanding campaign seems to have been consigned to the rubbish bin. Just like their 'kick Labour in to touch' pre-election propaganda."
Notes:
Welsh Liberal Democrats continue to campaign for the abolition of council tax, and its replacement with a local income tax. (full motion for debate this afternoon below, vote is due at 5pm)
"We want to scrap the unjust council tax and replace it with a fair local income tax." Plaid website, headline policies for the 2007 election
"Is not a form of local income tax preferable to a system of council tax enforced on the public, inflated by a housing market which bears no relation to the strength of the local economy?"
Statement by Dafydd Iwan, President of Plaid Cymru: "You Can Do It"
" [We will be] Scrapping council tax and introducing a fair taxing system." Alternative Queen's Speech, November 2006
"Is it not time that we looked to a fairer system, such as local income tax?" Ieuan Wyn Jones, plenary debate, 20 September, 2005
Welsh Liberal Democrat Motion:
The National Assembly for Wales:
1 Notes that a property's market value is often unrelated to the income of its occupants
2 Deplores the 'regressive' nature of council tax.
3 Notes that high increases in council tax disproportionately affect the poor.
4 Believes that a local tax should be based on a fairer system which reflects the resident's ability to pay.
5 Calls on the Welsh Assembly Government to include a review of local government taxation as part of the Commission set up to look at the financial aspects of the Welsh Assembly.
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