Plaid Cymru has pledged to scrap business rates for all enterprises with a rateable value of under £10,000 with those between £10,000 and £15,000 also seeing their bills reduced.
A Freedom of Information request by the party revealed 290 businesses in the county borough with a rateable value of under £10,000 had liability orders issued against them for non-payment over the past three years.
They are among 70,000 businesses across Wales that would be taken out of the rates system.
Figures produced by Plaid Cymru reveal that the total number of non-domestic liability orders issued against all businesses in the county borough in 2013/14 came to 266 with arrears at the end of last March put at £2,174,000.
Lindsay Whittle, Plaid Cymru AM for South Wales East, said: “Small businesses are the lifeblood of our communities and we need them to thrive.
“If we can reduce operating costs for small businesses that can lead to them investing, growing their businesses and creating jobs.”
Richard; EDITOR you say “A Freedom of Information request by the party ( Plaid Cymru) revealed 290 businesses in
the county borough with a rateable value of under £10,000 had liability
orders issued against them for non-payment over the past three years.” . Which County would this be?
How would this affect holidays homes?
This is nothing more the gesture politics! £10,000 really is not a large figure especially when that figure is not even gross profit.