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Senedd passes budget for Wales a day ahead of Britain's spring Budget
Pound coins, January 26, 2018

A FINAL budget for Wales was passed in the Senedd yesterday ahead of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Budget being set later today.

Welsh rates of income tax are estimated to raise over £3 billion in the next financial year and the Senedd agreed that Welsh taxpayers will continue to pay the same rates of income tax as people in England and Northern Ireland.

Finance Minister Rebecca Evans complained to the Senedd that the Westminster government Budget would have huge implications for Wales but the Conservative Party did not take the devolved nations into account when arranging its timetable.

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