Live Roundups Editor's Desk Insights Executive Ops Weather About 🔍
Home › Business & Finance › Holiday home tax rules could be eased after backlash
Business & Finance

Holiday home tax rules could be eased after backlash

Holiday home tax rules could be eased after backlash
BBC Wales Thursday 30 July 2026, 22:18 UTC 1 min read
Key Points

The Welsh government is to review the impact of a "modest' cut to the 182-day business rate threshold.

The Welsh government is to review the impact of a "modest' cut to the 182-day business rate threshold.
Welsh (ORG)
Originally published by BBC Wales Read original →

Related Stories

Fast-fashion retailer Shein’s 3-year IPO odyssey cost it the ‘golden time’ to go public

Shein won Beijing's approval for a Hong Kong listing after it publicly embraced the Chinese roots it spent years playing down. Now investors are questioning whether that blessing can carry a $40-billion-plus valuation for a company whose growth engine has stalled. The China Securities Regulatory Commission approved the listing early this month, after Shein's attempts at going public in New York and London failed.

CNBC 17m ago

Anthropic says its Claude models 'gained unauthorized access' to other organizations' systems

Anthropic on Thursday said it discovered three instances where its Claude artificial intelligence models accessed the internet during an evaluation and "gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations." The company said it found these incidents after carrying out a "a large-scale retrospective review" of its cybersecurity evaluations. Anthropic said the review was prompted by a separate but similar security incident that OpenAI disclosed last week.

CNBC 20m ago

Amazon soars after CEO Andy Jassy makes the case for its massive AI investment

Amazon soars after CEO Andy Jassy makes the case for its massive AI investment Amazon shares rallied after the company reported a much stronger-than-expected second quarter, with its high-margin cloud computing business delivering its fastest growth in 18 quarters. CEO Andy Jassy also delivered exactly what investors like us wanted to hear: a clear explanation of how its massive investment in artificial intelligence will generate returns. Revenue increased 20% year over year to $200 billion,...

CNBC 20m ago

Thames Water boss says leakage targets 'not realistic'

Chris Weston said Thames wanted "to do better" but some of its targets were not achievable.

BBC Business 41m ago