The first minister called for the devolution of landfill tax, stamp duty land tax, aggregates levy and air passenger duty, to support the delivery of his government's priorities.
The Scotland Bill Committee in the last parliament called for the devolving of the aggregates levy and air passenger duty following a UK government review of the issues.
We'll have to wait for November the 19th to find out exactly what's on the table here, but the guess would be full devolution of some minor taxes - the Aggregates Levy, Air Passenger Duty, Landfill Tax, possibly Stamp Duty?
If Paul Silk and his colleagues come back this autumn with a recommendation that the Assembly should gain powers to raise more than the "peanut" taxes like the aggregates levy and air passenger duty, then it's Labour who will have the greatest difficulty in accepting much beyond this - and will be the most exposed by being in government.
British hauliers, who face similar charges when their lorries travel in the EU, will also have to pay the UK levy, but vehicle excise duty will be cut to compensate.
"Silk is where the rubber hits the road for Wales right now, " said Mr Smith, who said Labour support the devolution of taxes such as air passenger duty and the aggregates levy if it unlocks borrowing powers.
This could mean the Welsh Assembly is given more powers to levy some taxes, such as rubbish dumping costs, air passenger duty on flights and stamp duty when buying homes, although it would not be limited to those taxes.
If the owner sold the property within six months of purchase, a 20% duty would apply -- between one and three years, a 10% levy would apply.
But the other paras tell us that there is Petroleum Revenue Tax, some horrible Brownian complexity over the taxation of the extraction companies, fuel duty and excise taxes on petrol and derv plus VAT, and then the Climate Change Levy.
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