URL: https://committeemeetings.flintshire.gov.uk/ieDecisionDetails.aspx?ID=12390&LLL=0

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Outcome:

Is Key Decision?: No

Is Callable In?: No

Purpose: To seek views on proposals for regulations to define and counteract a range of artificial rate avoidance arrangements, giving effect to the general anti-avoidance framework Welsh Government have established. It will also create a duty for ratepayers to report certain changes of circumstances to billing authorities. The Welsh Government intends for both proposals to take effect from 1 April 2026.

Content: To seek views on proposals for regulations to define and counteract a range of artificial rate avoidance arrangements, giving effect to the general anti-avoidance framework Welsh Government have established. It will also create a duty for ratepayers to report certain changes of circumstances to billing authorities. The Welsh Government intends for both proposals to take effect from 1 April 2026. That the report be deferred to Cabinet on 15th July, 2025.

Date of Decision: June 17, 2025